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Civil war
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and Indians died in the TransMississippi West between 1861 and 1865 than in all the Indians wars that followed the Civil War.
During the Civil War, the most formidable foe for the U.S. Army in the West, however, was Chief Cochise and his Chiricahua Apaches. The endurance of the Apache was legendary: he could cover 40 miles a day on foot, 75 on horseback, and was freely able to live off the land. Attacking with the stealth of ghosts, they were “terribly hard to kill,” notes the authoritative 1961 American Heritage Book of Indians.
This book quotes Capt. John G. Bourke, Gen. George Crook's adjutant, as holding the Apache in great regard: “For centuries he has been preeminent over the more peaceful nations about him for courage, skill, and daring in war; cunning in deceiving and evading his enemies; ferocity in attack when skillfully planned ambuscades have led an unwary foe into his clutches; cruelty and brutality to captives; patient endurance and fortitude under the greatest
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