Indian Cavalry

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

Read more about Indian Cavalry:  Cherokee Nation, Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation, Creek Nation, Seminole Nation, Osage Cavalry Battalion, Native American Units in The US Armed Forces

Famous quotes containing the words indian and/or cavalry:

    “Having resumed our seats in the canoe, I felt the Indian wiping my back, which he had accidently spat upon. He said it was a sign that I was going to be married.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “To fight aloud is very brave,
    But gallanter I know,
    Who charge within the bosom
    The Cavalry of Woe.”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)