Now time to go Nuts !!!
Nuts Planet are a company that release with many different subjects covering all modelling tastes from Fantasy to full figures in all periods and of course busts , the latter is what we will be looking at in this review
Announced here on PF originally and in Social media
http://www.planetfigure.com/threads/nutsplanet-s-new-releases-of-december.81723/
With the box art being shown here:
http://www.planetfigure.com/threads/nutsplanet-s-new-release-of-december.81848/
I knew a little about Indians fighting in the Civil War so was intrigued about this release so off on the hunt I went.
Indians fought on both sides of the war but lets look at the Union ones
The Indian Home Guards consisted of three Union regiments composed mainly of Seminoles, Creeks, and Cherokees. In 1862, Indians who were loyal to the Union fled to Kansas for safety on what is known as "the Trail of Blood on the Ice". In the severe winter weather they left behind all their food, clothing and medicine. Indian refugees wanted to return to their homelands to fight Confederate allies. The Union army needed men to retake Indian Territory (south of Kansas) from the Confederates, who controlled a majority of the Indian territory Recruitment of the American Indians commenced.. The Indian Home Guards were not well received,The Fort Scott Bulletin stated of the Indian recruitment,"their principle use is to devour Uncle Sam's hard-bread and beef, and spend his money. They would be as valuable as a flock of sheep in time of action. They ought to be disbanded immediately".
Initially, the Union formed two regiments -The First and Second Indian Home Guards, conditionally these soldiers only saw battle in Indian territory. Command of the individual companies were held by the Indians. Kansas was the only place that the Indians organized into their own regiments.
In the summer of 1862, the Indian Home Guards invaded Indian territory and were joined by captured Cherokees that were formally allied with the Confederacy, the number of Cherokee recruits were sufficient to compose a Third Indian Home Guard regiment.
From 1862-1863 ,the three Indian Home Guards regiments were organized to form the Indian Brigade, refine their art of battle and return to fight in Indian territory: October, 1862-Battle of old Fort Wayne, December 1862, seizure of Fort Davis, April 1863, Capture of Fort Gibson, July 1863, action at Cabin Creek, where the Indian Home Guards saved a union supply train from being captured by the forces of Stand Watie, the most persistent of the Confederate Indian commanders, July 1863, the Battle of Honey Springs sometimes referred to as "the Gettysburg of Indian Territory" the Union army secured a foothold in Indian territory.
The Indian Home Guards made it possible for the Indians to begin returning to their homelands and they contributed to the Union supremacy
The most famous Indian unit in the Union Army was Company "K" of the 1st Michigan Sharpshooters and was the largest all-Indian regiment in the Union Army East of the Mississippi River. The regiment consisted of 146 men, 139 of whom were Anishnaabek, the indigenous people of the Great Lakes. The Anishnaabek were made up of the Odawa, Ottawa, Ojibway, Chippewa and Potawatomi tribes. leverage to secure new treaties, more land rights, equal social standing and financial security.
The Anishnaabek supported the Union because they did not support the social injustices of slavery. Gaminoodhich, a Burt Lake Odawa correspondent for the Grand Traverse Herald in 1862 wrote,"for equality among all men including slaves, to be driven to the man-market for sale, we think, a rank offense before the Great Spirit, and foul blot on the Grand Republic".
In 1863, Union losses prompted the acceptance of Indian enlistment from Michigan, but public hostility still existed. The Detroit Advertiser and Tribune wrote"that as a race,[the Indians] have not yet reached that degree of civilization which should entitle them to all the rights, and place on them all the responsibilities of citizenship. At best they are but semi-civilized,...a poor, ignorant and dependent race".
Company "K" fought in the battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Crater.
July 30,1864, the Battle of the Crater, their last military engagement, the Sharpshooters had little ammunition and were surrounded. In his account of the Battle of the Crater, Lt. William H. Randall wrote that the Indian soldiers,"showed great coolness...Some of them were mortally wounded, and clustering together, covered their heads with their blouses, chanted a death song, and died-four of them in a group."
Indians fought sometimes reluctantly for both sides but were known by Indian names as such like Sgt John Chupco or "Long John" of the Union forces .
Often in civilian dress with issued weapons and with Indian clothing also being worn , sometimes mounted and issued cavalry items and uniforms but with Indian "additions" like metal discs and beads.
Our subject is from his dress very well attired , a good shirt ,a uniform coat , well armed and showing all the pride of a warrior , I feel he is a mounted soldier based on the weapon on a crossbelt.
Books are a little harder to find specifically about the Indian in the civil war here are some books that I have found/have in my library.
Continued in next post
Nap
Nuts Planet are a company that release with many different subjects covering all modelling tastes from Fantasy to full figures in all periods and of course busts , the latter is what we will be looking at in this review
Announced here on PF originally and in Social media
http://www.planetfigure.com/threads/nutsplanet-s-new-releases-of-december.81723/
With the box art being shown here:
http://www.planetfigure.com/threads/nutsplanet-s-new-release-of-december.81848/
I knew a little about Indians fighting in the Civil War so was intrigued about this release so off on the hunt I went.
Indians fought on both sides of the war but lets look at the Union ones
The Indian Home Guards consisted of three Union regiments composed mainly of Seminoles, Creeks, and Cherokees. In 1862, Indians who were loyal to the Union fled to Kansas for safety on what is known as "the Trail of Blood on the Ice". In the severe winter weather they left behind all their food, clothing and medicine. Indian refugees wanted to return to their homelands to fight Confederate allies. The Union army needed men to retake Indian Territory (south of Kansas) from the Confederates, who controlled a majority of the Indian territory Recruitment of the American Indians commenced.. The Indian Home Guards were not well received,The Fort Scott Bulletin stated of the Indian recruitment,"their principle use is to devour Uncle Sam's hard-bread and beef, and spend his money. They would be as valuable as a flock of sheep in time of action. They ought to be disbanded immediately".
Initially, the Union formed two regiments -The First and Second Indian Home Guards, conditionally these soldiers only saw battle in Indian territory. Command of the individual companies were held by the Indians. Kansas was the only place that the Indians organized into their own regiments.
In the summer of 1862, the Indian Home Guards invaded Indian territory and were joined by captured Cherokees that were formally allied with the Confederacy, the number of Cherokee recruits were sufficient to compose a Third Indian Home Guard regiment.
From 1862-1863 ,the three Indian Home Guards regiments were organized to form the Indian Brigade, refine their art of battle and return to fight in Indian territory: October, 1862-Battle of old Fort Wayne, December 1862, seizure of Fort Davis, April 1863, Capture of Fort Gibson, July 1863, action at Cabin Creek, where the Indian Home Guards saved a union supply train from being captured by the forces of Stand Watie, the most persistent of the Confederate Indian commanders, July 1863, the Battle of Honey Springs sometimes referred to as "the Gettysburg of Indian Territory" the Union army secured a foothold in Indian territory.
The Indian Home Guards made it possible for the Indians to begin returning to their homelands and they contributed to the Union supremacy
The Anishnaabek supported the Union because they did not support the social injustices of slavery. Gaminoodhich, a Burt Lake Odawa correspondent for the Grand Traverse Herald in 1862 wrote,"for equality among all men including slaves, to be driven to the man-market for sale, we think, a rank offense before the Great Spirit, and foul blot on the Grand Republic".
In 1863, Union losses prompted the acceptance of Indian enlistment from Michigan, but public hostility still existed. The Detroit Advertiser and Tribune wrote"that as a race,[the Indians] have not yet reached that degree of civilization which should entitle them to all the rights, and place on them all the responsibilities of citizenship. At best they are but semi-civilized,...a poor, ignorant and dependent race".
Company "K" fought in the battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Crater.
July 30,1864, the Battle of the Crater, their last military engagement, the Sharpshooters had little ammunition and were surrounded. In his account of the Battle of the Crater, Lt. William H. Randall wrote that the Indian soldiers,"showed great coolness...Some of them were mortally wounded, and clustering together, covered their heads with their blouses, chanted a death song, and died-four of them in a group."
Often in civilian dress with issued weapons and with Indian clothing also being worn , sometimes mounted and issued cavalry items and uniforms but with Indian "additions" like metal discs and beads.
Our subject is from his dress very well attired , a good shirt ,a uniform coat , well armed and showing all the pride of a warrior , I feel he is a mounted soldier based on the weapon on a crossbelt.
Books are a little harder to find specifically about the Indian in the civil war here are some books that I have found/have in my library.
Continued in next post
Nap
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