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)