page_title: Osage Battalion
hierarchical_section_title: Osage Battalion
caption_attribution_description: English: from British Museum page: "Photograph (black and white) from an album; studio portrait of a group of Osage men (from left to right); Young Black Dog standing wearing a decorated fringed hide shirt and leggings; Twelve O'Clock standing wearing a cloth shirt and a blanket wrapped around his waist; Ogias Captain standing wearing a cloth shirt and a hat; Little White Hair Chief, an Osage chief standing wearing a cloth shirt and a blanket wrapped around his waist; Alick Britt standing wearing a cloth shirt and a cloth turban; Big Hill Joe (Paw-ne-no-she), an Osage chief standing wearing a bear claw necklace, a cloth shirt, a blanket wrapped around his waist, and a fur cap with sheath; a White man standing wearing a cloth shirt and a hat; Playful Chief (Ga-hi-ge-wa- da-in-ga), an Osage chief standing wearing bead necklaces, a blanket wrapped around his waist, and a fur cap with sheath; The Distant Land (Ko-she-se-glo) standing wearing bead necklaces, a bead choker, a cloth turban, and a blanket wrapped around his waist, he is holding a tomahawk; and Reach to the Skies, an Osage chief standing wearing a bear claw neck ornament and a blanket wrapped around his waist; Fort Smith, United States of America."
context_page_description: The Osage Battalion was a Native American infantry unit of the Confederate States Army. Recruited from among the Osage tribe, whose loyalties were split between the Union and Confederacy, it did not meet its 500-man establishment. From spring 1863 a four-company battalion of 200 men served under Brigadier General Douglas H. Cooper in the Trans-Mississippi Department. The unit transferred to the First Indian Brigade under Native American Brigadier General Stand Watie. It fought at the Second Battle of Cabin Creek and, during Price's Missouri Expedition, at the Battle of Byram's Ford. The battalion surrendered to Union forces on June 23, 1865, one of the last Confederate units to lay down its arms.
context_section_description: The Osage Battalion was a Native American infantry unit of the Confederate States Army.  Recruited from among the Osage tribe, whose loyalties were split between the Union and Confederacy, it did not meet its 500-man establishment.  From spring 1863 a four-company battalion of 200 men served under Brigadier General Douglas H. Cooper in the Trans-Mississippi Department.  The unit transferred to the First Indian Brigade under Native American Brigadier General Stand Watie.  It fought at the Second Battle of Cabin Creek and, during Price's Missouri Expedition, at the Battle of Byram's Ford.  The battalion surrendered to Union forces on June 23, 1865, one of the last Confederate units to lay down its arms.
caption: A group of Osage pictured at the Fort Smith Council in 1865. The Osage Battalion's Captain Black Dog II is far left and Captain Ogeese Captain is third from left.
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