Jan 6, 2010

Salem on History | Bear River Campaign

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Series: American Indians Ready Reference
Categories: Military History, Land Acquisition and Expansion, Territory Redistribution
Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians, Massacres, Genocide, Torture
Curriculum: American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877), American Indian History
Geographical Location: Idaho
Date: 1863

Article abstract: Like the Sand Creek Massacre, the Bear River Campaign exemplified the antagonistic nature of military leadership when state militias replaced federal troops in the West during the Civil War.

At the beginning of the Civil War (1861-1865), some 2,500 federal troops under General Albert Sydney Johnston left Utah to fight in the East. Utah Territory, like the West in general at the time, was placed militarily under a volunteer state militia. The regarrisoning of Utah fell to the volatile California businessman and former Mexican-American War...

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Salem on History | Bear River Campaign

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