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Columns of Vengeance: Soldiers, Sioux and the Punitive Expeditions, 1863–1864 By Paul N. Beck, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2013, $34.95. The American Civil War was a tragic clash of cultures and lifestyles that seemed irreconcilable between people from North and South. Even greater was the gap in understanding and empathy between settlers on the …
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