A Nation of Widows and Orphans: The Devastation of the Cherokees, 1861-1865 at the Maple Valley Library

For adults.
Four years of murderous internecine warfare during the Civil War desolated the once prosperous Cherokee Nation. Local historian Richard Miller will discuss how intra-tribal rivalries dating to the early 19th century divided the Cherokees into bitterly opposed pro-southern and pro-northern factions; their unrelenting conflict, fighting on behalf of the Union and the Confederacy, contributed to the ruin of their homeland.
Richard Miller is the author of John P. Slough: The Forgotten Civil War General, published in 2021 by the University of New Mexico Press. He earned a B.A. in history from Carleton College and an M.A. in history from Princeton University.
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