- Brigadier-General
Stand Watie (Cherokee: ᏕᎦᏔᎦ, romanized: Degataga, lit. 'Stand firm';
December 12, 1806 –
September 9, 1871), also
known as Standhope...
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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...
- 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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officially surrendered his
command in Galveston, Texas. On June 23,
Stand Watie, who
commanded Southern troops in the
Indian Territory,
became the last...
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diverse group of companions. They
include an old
Cherokee man
named Lone
Watie;
Little Moonlight, a
young Navajo woman;
Sarah Turner, an
elderly woman...
- for the Union. The most
prominent Cherokee was
Brigadier General Stand Watie, the last
Confederate general to surrender.
After the fall of Vicksburg...
- 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...
- but a
variety of
conditions prevented him from
doing so. First,
Stand Watie, a
political opponent,
Treaty Party member, kin to the Ridges, and Boudinot's...
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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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younger brothers, one of whom
became known as
David Uwatie (father of
Stand Watie). From his
early years,
Ridge was
taught patience and self-denial, and to...
