Stand Watie Quotes

Stand Watie — Cherokee Soldier born on December 12, 1806, died on September 09, 1871

Stand Watie — known as Standhope Uwatie, Degataga, and Isaac S. Watie — was a leader of the Cherokee Nation and a brigadier general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He commanded the Confederate Indian cavalry of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi, made up mostly of Cherokee, Muskogee and Seminole, and was the final Confederate general in the field to cease hostilities at war's end... (wikipedia)

I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding.

If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to be quite friendly towards me before the war, but it could not be helped.

Stand Watie Quotes

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