Michael Fellman on the post-Civil War "final solution to the Indian problem"

Sherman, Grant and Sheridan
1937

[T]he great triumvirate of the Union Civil War effort [Grant, Sherman and Sheridan] formulated and enacted military Indian policy until reaching, by the 1880s, what Sherman sometimes referred to as "the final solution of the Indian problem," which he defined as killing hostile Indians and segregating their pauperized survivors in remote places . . . . These men applied their shared ruthlessness, born of their Civil War experiences, against a people all three despised, in the name of Civilization and Progress.

~ Michael Fellman, Citizen Sherman (1995)

(As quoted by Tom DiLorenzo, "How Lincoln's Army 'Liberated' the Indians," LewRockwell.com, February 12, 2003