The Second Creek War

Author : John T. Ellisor
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149621708X
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second Creek War written by John T. Ellisor and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have traditionally viewed the Creek War of 1836 as a minor police action centered on rounding up the Creek Indians for removal to Indian Territory. Using extensive archival research, John T. Ellisor demonstrates that in fact the Second Creek War was neither brief nor small. Indeed, armed conflict continued long after peace was declared and the majority of Creeks had been sent west. Ellisor’s study also broadly illuminates southern society just before the Indian removals, a time when many blacks, whites, and Natives lived in close proximity in the Old Southwest. In the Creek country, also called New Alabama, these ethnic groups began to develop a pluralistic society. When the 1830s cotton boom placed a premium on Creek land, however, dispossession of the Natives became an economic priority. Dispossessed and impoverished, some Creeks rose in armed revolt both to resist removal west and to drive the oppressors from their ancient homeland. Yet the resulting Second Creek War that raged over three states was fueled both by Native determination and by economic competition and was intensified not least by the massive government-sponsored land grab that constituted Indian removal. Because these circumstances also created fissures throughout southern society, both whites and blacks found it in their best interests to help the Creek insurgents. This first book-length examination of the Second Creek War shows how interethnic collusion and conflict characterized southern society during the 1830s.

Author : John T. Ellisor
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496219988
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second Creek War written by John T. Ellisor and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have traditionally viewed the “Creek War of 1836” as a minor police action centered on rounding up the Creek Indians for removal to Indian Territory. Using extensive archival research, John T. Ellisor demonstrates that, in fact, the Second Creek War was neither brief nor small. Indeed, armed conflict continued long after “peace” was declared and the majority of Creeks had been sent west. Ellisor’s study also broadly illuminates southern society just prior to the Indian removals, a time when many blacks, whites, and Natives lived in close proximity in the Old Southwest. In the Creek country, also called New Alabama, these ethnic groups began to develop a pluralistic society. When the 1830s cotton boom placed a premium on Creek land, however, dispossession of the Natives became an economic priority. Dispossessed and impoverished, some Creeks rose in armed revolt both to resist removal west and to drive the oppressors from their ancient homeland. Yet the resulting Second Creek War, which raged over three states, was fueled not only by Native determination but also by economic competition and was intensified not least by the massive government-sponsored land grab that constituted Indian removal. Because these circumstances also created fissures throughout southern society, both whites and blacks found it in their best interests to help the Creek insurgents. This first book-length examination of the Second Creek War shows how interethnic collusion and conflict characterized southern society during the 1830s.

Author : Winthrop D. Jordan
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807120392
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tumult And Silence At Second Creek written by Winthrop D. Jordan and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the war-fevered spring and summer of 1861, a group of slaves in Adams County, Mississippi, conspired to gain their freedom by overthrowing and murdering their white masters. The conspiracy was discovered, the plotters were arrested and tried, and at least forty slaves in and around Natchez were hanged. By November the affair was over, and the planters of the district united to conceal the event behind a veil of silence. In 1971, Winthrop D. Jordan came upon the central document, previously unanalyzed by modern scholars, upon which this extraordinary book is based - a record of the testimony of some of the accused slaves as they were interrogated by a committee of planters determined to ferret out what was going on. This discovery led him on a twenty-year search for additional information about the aborted rebellion. Because no official report or even newspaper account of the plot existed, the search for evidence became a feat of historical detection. Jordan gathered information from every possible source - the private letters and diaries of members of the families involved in suppressing the conspiracy and of people who recorded the rumors that swept the Natchez area in the unsettled months following the beginning of the war; letters from Confederate soldiers concerned about the events back home; the journal of a Union officer who heard of the plot; records of the postwar Southern Claims Commission; census documents; plantation papers; even gravestones. What has emerged from this odyssey of research is a brilliantly written re-creation of one of the last slave conspiracies in the United States. It is also a revealing portrait of the Natchez region at the very beginning of the CivilWar, when Adams County was one of the wealthiest communities in the nation and a few powerful families interconnected by marriage and business controlled not only a large black population but the poorer whites as well. In piecing together the fragments of extant information about the conspiracy, Jordan has produced a vivid picture of the plantation slave community in southwestern Mississippi in 1861 - its composition and distribution; the degree of mobility permitted slaves; the ways information was passed around slave quarters and from plantation to plantation; the possibilities for communication with town slaves, free blacks, and white abolitionists. Jordan also explores the treatment of blacks by their owners, the kinds of resentments the slaves harbored, the sacrifices they were willing to make to protect or avenge abused family members, and the various ways in which they viewed freedom. Tumult and Silence at Second Creek is a major work by one of the most distinguished scholars of slavery and race relations. Winthrop D. Jordan's study of the slave society of the Natchez area at the onset of the Civil War is a landmark contribution to the field. More than that, his exhaustive and resourceful search for documentation and his careful analysis of sources make the study an extended and innovative essay on the nature of historical evidence and inference.

Author : LARRY. WILLIAMSON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781640660571
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muskogi Sunset written by LARRY. WILLIAMSON and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Larry Williamson's Muskogi Sunset: The Second Creek War of 1836, builds on the tragic story of his prequel, Tallapoosa, including many of the same characters and mix of historical facts. His update shows that the Indian Removal Act of 1830 was not fully endorsed by Alabama's citizenry, especially those living on Creek lands.

Author : Richard Blackmon
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160925429
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Creek War, 1813-1814 written by Richard Blackmon and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2014 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Creek War grew out of a civil war that pitted Creek Indians striving to maintain their traditional culture, called Red Sticks, against those Creeks who sought to assimilate with United States society.

Author : DAVID ARTHUR EKARDT
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781634522151
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE U.S. MARINES IN THE SECOND CREEK AND SECOND SEMINOLE WARS written by DAVID ARTHUR EKARDT and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people do not realize that the U.S.Marines participated in the longest of the Indian wars, The Second Seminole War. After serving for several months in Georgia and Alabama involved in the Second Creek War, Commandant Archibald Henderson led them to Florida. There they served in many capacities from 1836-1842. They were put in charge of Tampa Bay and Fort Brooke for several months, as well as manning other forts; they patroled the interior of the territory, they lead the Creek Indian volunteers, they were detailed as mounted troops, they provided security for the many supply wagon trains and even escorted several groups of Indians to the Arkansas Territory for resettlement. They along with sailors of the West Indies Squadron's 'Mosquito Fleet' of specially constructed canoess, were the first non-natives to cross the Evergaldes from the east coast to the west coast. The Marines as did the soldiers and sailors who particpated in the Florida actions endured many hardships and disease during their service in Florida. They proved to be an excellent versitle force then as they do today.

Author : Henry Sale Halbert
Publisher : Chicago : Donohue & Henneberry
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Creek War of 1813 and 1814 written by Henry Sale Halbert and published by Chicago : Donohue & Henneberry. This book was released on 1895 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Center of Center of Military History United States Army
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781505631586
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Creek War 1813-1814 written by Center of Center of Military History United States Army and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many respects, the Creek War of 1813-1814 is considered part of the Southern Theater of the War of 1812. The Creek War grew out of a civil war that pitted Creek Indians striving to maintain their traditional culture, called Red Sticks, against those Creeks who sought to assimilate with United States society. Spurred by religious prophets and promises of British assistance, the Red Sticks grew increasingly aggressive and were eventually attacked by Mississippi Territory militia, which sparked the Creek War. With an almost complete dearth of Regular U.S. Army units, the militias from the Mississippi Territory, Tennessee, and Georgia, as well as Choctaw and Cherokee allies, all invaded the Creek Nation to attack the Red Stick Creeks. Initially the strikes were uncoordinated, but, despite abysmal supply systems, the U.S. forces eventually overwhelmed the Red Sticks. Their defeat at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend forced them into the treaty of Fort Jackson in August 1814, at which they ceded some 23 million acres in what are now the states of Alabama and Georgia.

Author : Mike Bunn
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162584381X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battle for the Southern Frontier written by Mike Bunn and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive book is the first to chronicle both wars and document the sites on which they were fought. It sheds light on how the wars led to the forced removal of Native Americans from the region, secured the Gulf South against European powers, facilitated increased migration into the area, furthered the development of slave-based agriculture and launched the career of Andrew Jackson.

Author : Christopher D. Haveman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803284888
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rivers of Sand written by Christopher D. Haveman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At its height the Creek Nation comprised a collection of multiethnic towns and villages stretching across large parts of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. By the 1830s, however, the Creeks had lost almost all this territory through treaties and by the unchecked intrusion of white settlers who illegally expropriated Native soil. With the Jackson administration unwilling to aid the Creeks in removing the squatters, the Creek people suffered from dispossession, starvation, and indebtedness. Between the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs and the forced migrations beginning in 1836, nearly twenty-three thousand Creek Indians were relocated—voluntarily or involuntarily—to Indian Territory. Rivers of Sand fills a substantial gap in scholarship by capturing, for the first time, the full breadth and depth of the Creeks’ collective tragedy during the marches westward, on the Creek home front, and during the first years of resettlement. Unlike the Cherokee Trail of Tears, which was conducted largely at the end of a bayonet, most Creeks were removed through a combination of coercion and negotiation. Hopelessly outnumbered military personnel were forced to make concessions in order to gain the compliance of the headmen and their people. Christopher D. Haveman’s meticulous study uses previously unexamined documents to weave narratives of resistance and survival, making Rivers of Sand an essential addition to the ethnohistory of American Indian removal.