Original sentence: Downing was born in Eastern Tennessee in 1823.He died in office at Tahlequah, on November 9, 1872, and is buried in the old Ned Adair cemetery in what is today, Mayes County, Oklahoma.John Drew, the members of this regiment began to abandon the Confederate service and, on July 11, 1862, at Flat Rock Creek, joined the Third Indian Home Guards for service in the Union army.The Union Cherokee government, which recognized John Ross as chief, held its meetings at Cowskin Prairie where, in July, 1862, allegiance to the Confederacy was renounced and on February 21, 1863, laws of emancipation were enacted and future slavery abolished.This duplication in Cherokee tribal governments obtained from July, 1862, until the conclusion of the war.This regiment fought in the Confederate service at Pea Ridge, Arkansas, on March 7-8, 1862, but with the advance of the Union forces into the Territory in July, 1862, and the departure of Chief Ross for Philadelphia, its members began to waver in their allegiance to the South
Edited sentence: Downing was born in eastern Tennessee in 1823.He died in office at Tahlequah, on November 9, 1872, and is buried in the old Ned Adair cemetery in what is today Mayes County, Oklahoma.John Drew, the members of this regiment began to abandon the Confederate service and, on July 11, 1862, at Flat Rock Creek, joined the Third Indian Home Guards for service in the Union Army.The Union Cherokee government, which recognized John Ross as chief, held its meetings at Cowskin Prairie where, in July 1862, allegiance to the Confederacy was renounced and on February 21, 1863, laws of emancipation were enacted and future slavery abolished.This duplication in Cherokee tribal governments obtained from July 1862, until the conclusion of the war.This regiment fought in the Confederate service at Pea Ridge, Arkansas, on March 7-8, 1862, but with the advance of the Union forces into the Territory in July 1862, and the departure of Chief Ross for Philadelphia, its members began to waver in their allegiance to the South