The Confederate War Bonnet: A Novel of the Civil War in Indian Territory
by Jack Shakely
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Author: Jack ShakelyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-02-12
ISBN: 0595461409
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Book Reviews of The Confederate War Bonnet: A Novel of the Civil War in Indian Territory
Book Review: A Bit of History that should be Required Reading
Summary: 5 Stars
The Confederate War Bonnet, A Novel of the Civil War in Indian Territory, by Jack Shakely should be required reading in America's public schools. Not only is War Bonnet entertaining; it is educational as well. The reader gets a peek into the dark side of greed and corruption with American Indians as the not-so-helpless victims.
I've always been interested in history (including the Civil War), not the dry kind that puts you to sleep in the classroom, but the kind that keeps you riveted because the characters ride off the page shooting and shouting..
Jack Gaston, the main, real-life character of War Bonnet is in his third year at Harvard University when the Civil War starts. His closest friend and blood brother arrives with bad news. Jack's father has been murdered, and the Creek Tribal Council has elected Jack as a chief in the House of Warriors. Half of the Creek nation has decided to join the Confederacy in the War Between the States, and Jack is to become a Captain in the Southern Army.
Not only does Jack go to war but he falls in love with a half Apache nurse tending to the Creek people and warriors wounded in battles. War Bonnet helps reveal a little-known part of the Civil War where American Indians sided with the Confederacy because of the way the tribes had been treated by corrupt Union politicians and bureaucrats full of false promises. The Indian leaders are tired of being lied to and cheated. The Confederacy has promised to treat them as equals and with respect.
The Creek nation divides between the South and the North. Near the end of the Civil War, Jack is called before the Principal Chief of the tribes that sided with the North.
"All of our destinies may be in the dust, unless we do something now," Micco Hutke said in the same soothing voice he had used earlier. "To heal our wounds and bring us together as one people is something we must strive to achieve, and we give you our thanks for offering your hand in peace. But are we to become a Nation without a nation, like the poor Sac and Fox? The (northern) government tells us that even though we remained loyal, we are now `renegades' and all of our treaties must be rewritten."
I spent thirty years as a teacher in the public schools teaching English literature, and if we are to continue to be a great nation, at least the kind of nation many of us will be proud of, we have to know about the darker chapters in our history. The Confederate War Bonnet is more than a story about the trials and tribulations of war and love. War Bonnet delves into the war between the forces of evil and good.
To find out if good prevails, I recommend that you buy and read The Confederate War Bonnet. If you are a student of the Civil war and the American west, this is a novel that will not disappoint.. Jack Shakely is a fourth-generation Oklahoman of Creek descent. In The Confederate War Bonnet, Shakely has done a service to two nations.
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