Ah, that's extremely helpful; searching for "American Civil War" and "cherokee" brings up some specific information which covers the dates I'm looking for; thankyou!
A lot of alliances were drawn with natives based on territory they occupied. Post Chickamauga Wars, there were very few native landowners with slaves (and there were never too many to begin with. However, at one point, there clearly were: Cherokee Freedmen.) Residence in Oklahoma and Texas, and North Carolina, would have probably drawn the most combatants for the Confederacy. (Cherokee who remained after 1832 in Georgia were either keeping a low profile or so assimilated that their beliefs were the same as the Anglos.)
Try using the search terms "Buffalo Soldiers." And most of the Five Civilized Tribes had slaves, because they tried to affect the trappings of the colonialists of the atlantic region.
Another search string that might prove useful to you would be 'Indentured Servants.'
If you're looking for battles or skirmishes in which native americans participated in, you might look at skirmishes in Texas, or possibly out along the western fronteer.
THE Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole tribes were the only Indian tribes who took an active part in the civil war. Before the war very few of the Indians of these tribes manifested any interest in the question of slavery, and only a small number owned slave property. Slavery among them was not regarded in the same light as among the whites, for in many instances the slaves acted as if they were on an equality with their masters. But the tribes named occupied valuable territory, and the Confederate authorities lost no time in sending agents among them to win them over. When the Confederate agents first approached the full-blood leaders of the Cherokee and Creek tribes on the subject of severing their relations with the United States, the Indian expressed themselves cautiously but decidedly as preferring to remain neutral. It goes on to explain how both Union and Confederate officials tried to win Indian help, and gives
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I tried finding out about the gentleman thing. Here is how Robert E. Lee defined being a gentleman, so that was likely popular at the time. It does seem to have more to do with behavior than anything else
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Another search string that might prove useful to you would be 'Indentured Servants.'
If you're looking for battles or skirmishes in which native americans participated in, you might look at skirmishes in Texas, or possibly out along the western fronteer.
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THE Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole tribes were the only Indian tribes who took an active part in the civil war. Before the war very few of the Indians of these tribes manifested any interest in the question of slavery, and only a small number owned slave property. Slavery among them was not regarded in the same light as among the whites, for in many instances the slaves acted as if they were on an equality with their masters. But the tribes named occupied valuable territory, and the Confederate authorities lost no time in sending agents among them to win them over. When the Confederate agents first approached the full-blood leaders of the Cherokee and Creek tribes on the subject of severing their relations with the United States, the Indian expressed themselves cautiously but decidedly as preferring to remain neutral.
It goes on to explain how both Union and Confederate officials tried to win Indian help, and gives ( ... )
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