Lincoln and the Indians: Civil War Politics and Policy. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985), 53. The Papers of Chief John Ross Volume II 1840-1866. (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1978), 176. (New York: The Penguin Press, 2008), xiii. Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln As Commander In Chief. (Nashville, TN: Cumberland House, 2005),184.ĭonald, David Herbert. (New York: Public Affairs, 2008), 111.Ĭox, Hank H. “The Transcontinental Railroad.” In Abraham Lincoln Great American Historians on Our Sixteenth President, Brian Lamb and Susan Swain, eds. Hereinafter as Messages and Papers.īain, David Howard. (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Literature, 1896), 3388. “Self-Guided Tour to Acoma.” http.//Retrieved February 5, 2009.Ī Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the President, Volume VIII. Neither were concerned with the well being of Indians except to the extent that if Indians were in the way they had to be moved by any means necessary. The Homestead Act and facilitating the construction of the transcontinental railroad were two means designed to accomplish this end. Second only to winning the Civil War and establishing a just post war reconstruction, Lincoln’s highest policy priority was settling the west. Nichols notes, “For the most part, the president left Indian matters to the Indian office,” the precursor of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.” An indication of the level of Lincoln’s involvement in Indian affairs is his brief mentions of Indians in each of his four Annual Messages to Congress. McPherson notes in his recent Tried By Fire: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief, “Abraham Lincoln was the only president in American history whose entire administration was bounded by war. During his four years as president Lincoln was preoccupied with the Civil War but several events occurred that had lasting impact on Indian policy and Indian people. As David A.
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