Indian cavalry

Indian cavalry is the name collectively given (for lack of a better one) to the Heartland and Eastern American Indians who fought during the American Civil War, most of them from horseback and most of them for the South.

*Scales'/Fry's Battalion of Cherokee Cavalry
*Meyer's Battalion of Cherokee Cavalry
*Cherokee Battalion of Infantry
*Second Cherokee Artillery

Chickasaw Nation

*First Regiment of Chickasaw Infantry
*First Regiment of Chickasaw Cavalry First Colonel: William L. Hunter
*First Battalion of Chickasaw Cavalry
*Shecoe's Chickasaw Battalion of Mounted Volunteers

Choctaw Nation

*First Regiment Choctaw & Chickasaw Mounted Rifles
*First Regiment of Choctaw Mounted Rifles
*Deneale's Regiment of Choctaw Warriors
*Second Regiment of Choctaw Cavalry
*Third Regiment of Choctaw Cavalry
*Folsom's Battalion of Choctaw Mounted Rifles
*Capt. John Wilkin's Company of Choctaw Infantry
*Northwest Frontier Command of Indian Territory

Creek Nation

*First Creek Mounted Rifles - Col. Daniel N. McIntosh, Commanding
** Co. A - 2nd Lt. William McIntosh
** Co. C - Capt. William F. McIntosh, Commanding
** Co. G - Capt. William H. McIntosh, Commanding
** Co. G - 2nd Lt. A.H. McIntosh
*Second Creek Mounted Rifles - Lt. Col. Chilly McIntosh, Commanding

eminole Nation

*First Battalion Seminole Mounted Volunteers
*First Regiment Seminole Mounted Volunteers

Osage Cavalry Battalion

*First Commander: Major Broken Arm [http://www.thesouthernamerican.org/rebbraves.html] [http://members.aol.com/ciiisiii/cherokeepage/indcsaunits.htm]

Native American Indian units in the Armed forces the fought for the Union

Indian Home Guard (American Civil War)

ee also

* Albert Pike
* Battle of Chustenahlah
* Battle of Chusto-Talasah
* Battle of Pea Ridge
* Battle of Round Mountain
* Benjamin McCulloch
* Billy Bowlegs
* Cherokee Nation Warriors Society
* Douglas H. Cooper
* Ely S. Parker
* First Confederate Congress
* Fort Smith Council
* Halleck Tustenuggee
* James G. Blunt
* John Rollin Ridge
* Keetoowah Nighthawk Society
* Lewis Downing
* Lumbee
* Murrell Home
* Opothleyahola
* Richard Montgomery Gano
* Sam Sixkiller
* Samuel B. Maxey
* Second Confederate Congress

External links

* [http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/scruggs4.html LewRockwell.com article on the Cherokee Nation and the CSA]
* [http://www.civilwarhome.com/unionconfedindians.htm Source page, used with permission from the author]
* [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/topic/military/CivilWar/csaindianrecords.htm Native American CSA Records]
*http://juntosociety.com/native/black_dog.htm
* [http://www.quillspirit.org/History/Civil_War_Data/Waties_Regiments/ Stand Watie Civil War Regiment Roster]
*http://www.us-data.org/us/minges/keetoodi.html