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Agents of Empire: The First Oregon Cavalry and the Opening of the Interior Pacific Northwest during the Civil War

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By (author): James Robbins Jewell

Named a Top Ten Book of 2023 by Civil War Books and Authors

Agents of Empire
expands the historiographical scope of Civil War studies to include the wars intersection with the history of the American West, demonstrating how the war was transcontinental in scope. Much more than a traditional Civil War regimental history, James Robbins Jewells work delves into the operational and social conditions under which the First Oregon Cavalry Regiment was formed. In response to ongoing tensions and violent interactions with Native peoples determined to protect their way of life and lands, Colonel George Wright, head of the militarys District of Oregon, asked the governor of Oregon to form a voluntary cavalry unit to protect white settlers and farmers.

By using local volunteers, and later two additional regiments of infantry from the region, the federal government was able to draw from the majority of Regular Army troops stationed in the Pacific Northwest, who were eventually sent to fight Confederate forces east of the Mississippi River. Had the First Oregon Cavalry failed to fulfill its responsibilities, the federal government would have had to recall Union forces from other threatened areas and send them to Oregon and Washington Territory to quell secessionist unrest and Indigenous resistance to land theft, resource appropriation, and murder. The First Oregon Cavalry ensured settlers security in the Unions farthest northwest corner, thereby contributing to the Union cause. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Jun 2023
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781496233035

About James Robbins Jewell

James Robbins Jewell is a professor of history and co-chair of the Social and Behavioral Science Division at North Idaho College. He is the editor of On Duty in the Pacific Northwest during the Civil War: Correspondence and Reminiscences of the First Oregon Cavalry Regiment.

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