- Brigadier-General
Stand Watie (Cherokee: ᏕᎦᏔᎦ, romanized: Degataga, lit. 'Stand firm';
December 12, 1806 –
September 9, 1871), also
known as Standhope...
- ᎤᏩᏘ, romanized: Gallegina Uwati; 1802 – June 22, 1839; also
known as Buck
Watie) was a writer,
newspaper editor, and
leader of the
Cherokee Nation. He was...
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Rifles for
Watie is a children's
novel by
American writer Harold Keith. It was
first published in 1957, and
received the
Newbery Medal the
following year...
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Supporting Actor, and for his role in The
Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), as Lone
Watie,
opposite Clint Eastwood. Born as
Geswanouth Slahoot in
North Vancouver...
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North Carolina and
eastern Tennessee. Out west,
Confederate Cherokee Stand Watie led
primarily Native Confederate forces in the
Indian Territory, in what...
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defending his
uncle Stand Watie against murder charges.
Watie had
killed James Foreman, one of the
attackers of
Major Ridge,
Watie's uncle.
Major Ridge, his...
- the 1st
Regiment of
Cherokee Mounted Rifles with
Stand Watie in command.
During the war,
Watie's troops parti****ted in twenty-seven
major engagements...
- Cherokee, Choctaw,
Chickasaw and Cr****
Indians led by
Cherokee General Stand Watie. The
Union army was
unprepared for the
logistical challenges of
trying to...
- for the Union. The most
prominent Cherokee was
Brigadier General Stand Watie, the last
Confederate general to surrender.
After the fall of Vicksburg...
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abandon them when
faced with
ongoing raids by
Stand Watie;
later the
Union recaptured them again.
Stand Watie was the last
Confederate commander in the field...
