Washington telegraph., 1864-11-16
GEN. STAND WAITE.

Cor. EAKIN: Sir - Perhaps it wonld
be interesting to most OF your readers to
know something Of the history Of this
truly b ave, gallant and patriotic Chcro-
kGc Chief and Confederate General. lie
was born about tho year lS06, III tile
Cherokee Nation, cast 1I Tic Mississippi
river, near Capiule, now tile State Uf
Georgia, Hnd about twenty miles from
Rome in that State. His father and
mother were members Of tie Mnvariau
Church, and he was baptized by tie
name Of Isadec, and for many years he
signed his name Isadcc Waite, hut his
Indian name being Tay-k4h-taw-kah,
was called in English Stand, which Il
not the literal meaning David Waite,
or as the Indian name is called, anu
from which tic present name is derived
-Oo-way tee-was the father OF Gen.
w and a full blood Indian. and could
not speak English. 90 way-tee signi-
firs all, whcn applied to an inanimate
object Fc was own brother 10 Major
Ridge, whose Indian name was kah-
nah-'ahitlsggcc, which means some one
walking on a ridge--hencc the naGlc
Of ridge. Every one acquainted with
the Indians knows that they had no sur
names among them, until their inter
marriage with the whites, and the III
PRODUCTION Of the English language
among them. hence the cause of Ridge
ard Waite being called by different
names, though inll brothers Major
Ridge was il the battle Of Horse Shoe,
and was appointed Major Ivy Gen. Jack
son for his gallantry. Waite was in
the same battle, and acted Courageous
", but he was 50 modest aud retiring
in his habits, that hc received no pro
motion
Gen. Watic's mother was 4 half blood.
Her father was \ white man by the
namo Of Rusc, am was native Of
South Carolina. His parents were of
the most respectable OF that State. Mrs.
Waite had the brother of Charles Rusc.
native Cherokee, who distinguished
himself at the battle Of the Horse Shoe
under Gen. jackson, fOr which he re-
ccived magnificent rife, richly noun
ted with silver
Gen. w. is an own brother of Elias
Buudinot, known thirty-two years ago
=, the able and talented editor OF the
Cherokee Phoenix, and who was killed
in June 1889, at Park Hill, "a also were
Major and John Ridge On the same
day, by tile Ross party. Hence the en-
nifty between the two parties Gen. w.
came neal being killed on the same day,
but his known courage, and his getting
news of the murder Of his brother By a
courier, deferred the assassns from at
tempting his lifc. Elias Boudinot was
known in bis early boyhood by the name
Of Gah-lah- gee-nah, or Buck Waite. The
Indian lame signifying tic male Uf the
deer When nn his way to Connecticut
to receive his education, with several
other Cherokee boys, tic passed through
Burlington, New Jersey, where he met
DR.. Elias Bondinot, French Hugeuot,
who was SO much pleased with young
Waite that he adopted him; and gave
him his name. Elias Bondinot is tie
father Of Hon. t. q. Bondinot, the able
Cherokee Delegate in thc Confederate
Congress, and is known iii Arkansas as
the talented editor Of the Free Democrat.
at Little Rock in 1860.
Gen. ". was prosecuted by the Ross
party from 1889 TO 1915, and frequently
during that time Combinations were
formed to assassinale him, bnt he was
always Oh the look ont fur them. and
they never could catch him nif uf his
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