General Stand Watie's Confederate Indians
By: by Frank Cunningham ; foreword by Brad Agnew.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Watie, Stand, 1806-1871.; Confederate States of America. Army -- Biography.; Confederate States of America. Army. Cherokee Regiment.; Generals -- Confederate States of America -- Biography.; Cherokee Indians -- Biography.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Indian.; Oklahoma -- History, Military -- 19th century.
Description: This is the story of Stand Watie, the only Indian to attain the rank of general in the Confederate Army. An aristocratic, prosperous slaveholding planter and leader of the Cherokee mixed bloods, Watie was recruited in Indian Territory by Albert Pike to fight the Union forces on the western front. He organized the First Cherokee Rifles on July 29, 1861, and was commissioned a colonel. In 1864, after battling at Wilson's Creek and Pea Ridge, he became brigadier general.

Watie was the last Confederate general to lay down his arms in surrender, two months after Appomattox. In her foreword, Brad Agnew discusses Watie's role in the Civil War and his reception by later historians.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-218) and index.
Originally published: San Antonio : Naylor Co., 1959.