General Stand Watie's Confederate Indians

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This is the story of Stand Watie, the only Indian to attain the rank of general in the Confederate Army. An aristocratic, prosperous slaveholding planter and leader of the Cherokee mixed bloods, Watie was recruited in Indian Territory by Albert Pike to fight the Union forces on the western front. He organized the First Cherokee Rifles on July 29, 1861, and was commissioned a colonel. In 1864, after battling at Wilson's Creek and Pea Ridge, he became brigadier general. Watie was the last Confederate general to lay down his arms in surrender, two months after Appomattox. In her foreword, Brad Agnew discusses Watie's role in the Civil War and his reception by later historians.

subjects: Biography,  Cherokee Indians,  Confederate States of America,  Confederate States of America. Army,  Confederate States of America. Army. Cherokee Regiment,  Generals,  History,  History, Military,  Indian Participation,  Indian troops,  Military History,  Participation, Indian,  United States Civil War, 1861-1865,  Watie, stand, 1806-1871,  Confederate states of america, army,  Indians of north america, biography,  United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, participation, indian,  Oklahoma, history

People: Stand Watie (1806-1871)

Places: Confederate States of America,  Oklahoma,  United States

Times: 19th century,  Civil War, 1861-1865