Far from being just a struggle of North against South, the Civil spread westward, bringing Native Americans into the conflict. In this Pulitzer Prize finalist, Megan Kate Nelson expands our understanding of America's defining war with portraits of John R. Baylor, who established the Confederate Territory of Arizona; Louisa Hawkins Canby, a Union Army wife who nursed Confederate soldiers; frontiersman Kit Carson, who led a regiment of volunteers against the Texans, Navajos, and Comanches; and Mangas Coloradas, a revered Chiricahua Apache chief who foughtto expand Apache territory in Arizona.