Book Description
Biography of General Stand Watie, including his early life and Cherokee history, military career in the Civil War, and post-military career.
Author : Mabel Washbourne Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Cherokee Indians
ISBN :
Biography of General Stand Watie, including his early life and Cherokee history, military career in the Civil War, and post-military career.
Author : Frank Cunningham
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,6 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806130354
A life of the general
Author : Mabel Washbourne Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 2012
Category :
ISBN : 9781258227807
Author : Mabel Washbourne Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 23,25 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Cherokee Indians
ISBN : 9780615336596
Author : Mabel W. Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 23,3 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780795043758
Author : Mabel Washbourne Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 1915
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Frank Cunningham
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1786257769
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. “Frank Cunningham tells with all its gusto, hard riding, triumph, and heartbreak, the story of Stand Watie’s Cherokee Brigade that fought mightily in Missouri, Arkansas, and the present Oklahoma, under Generals Sterling Price, Thomas C. Hindman, Kirby Smith, and other commanders of the Trans-Mississippi Department, and when no superior officer was available, then pell mell and uncompromisingly on its own.”—North Carolina Historical Review “A graphic and authentic account of General Stand Watie and his Indian troops....[It] fills a long-neglected gap in the Civil War annals.”—Civil War History
Author : Harold Keith
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 37,32 MB
Release : 1987-09-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 006447030X
Jeff Bussey walked briskly up the rutted wagon road toward Fort Leavenworth on his way to join the Union volunteers. It was 1861 in Linn County, Kansas, and Jeff was elated at the prospect of fighting for the North at last. In the Indian country south of Kansas there was dread in the air; and the name, Stand Watie, was on every tongue. A hero to the rebel, a devil to the Union man, Stand Watie led the Cherokee Indian Na-tion fearlessly and successfully on savage raids behind the Union lines. Jeff came to know the Watie men only too well. He was probably the only soldier in the West to see the Civil War from both sides and live to tell about it. Amid the roar of cannon and the swish of flying grape, Jeff learned what it meant to fight in battle. He learned how it felt never to have enough to eat, to forage for his food or starve. He saw the green fields of Kansas and Okla-homa laid waste by Watie's raiding parties, homes gutted, precious corn deliberately uprooted. He marched endlessly across parched, hot land, through mud and slash-ing rain, always hungry, always dirty and dog-tired. And, Jeff, plain-spoken and honest, made friends and enemies. The friends were strong men like Noah Babbitt, the itinerant printer who once walked from Topeka to Galveston to see the magnolias in bloom; boys like Jimmy Lear, too young to carry a gun but old enough to give up his life at Cane Hill; ugly, big-eared Heifer, who made the best sourdough biscuits in the Choctaw country; and beautiful Lucy Washbourne, rebel to the marrow and proud of it. The enemies were men of an-other breed - hard-bitten Captain Clardy for one, a cruel officer with hatred for Jeff in his eyes and a dark secret on his soul. This is a rich and sweeping novel-rich in its panorama of history; in its details so clear that the reader never doubts for a moment that he is there; in its dozens of different people, each one fully realized and wholly recognizable. It is a story of a lesser -- known part of the Civil War, the Western campaign, a part different in its issues and its problems, and fought with a different savagery. Inexorably it moves to a dramat-ic climax, evoking a brilliant picture of a war and the men of both sides who fought in it.
Author : Kenny Arthur Franks
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 16,22 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Cherokee Indians
ISBN :
A biography of Stand Watie, a Cherokee leader and Confederate general.
Author : Steven L. Warren
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 161423762X
The commander of the three-hundred-wagon Union supply train never expected a large ragtag group of Texans and Native Americans to attack during the dark of night in Union-held territory. But Brigadier Generals Richard Gano and Stand Watie defeated the unsuspecting Federals in the early morning hours of September 19, 1864, at Cabin Creek in the Cherokee nation. The legendary Watie, the only Native American general on either side, planned details of the raid for months. His preparation paid off--the Confederate troops captured wagons with supplies that would be worth more than $75 million today. Writer, producer and historian Steve Warren uncovers the untold story of the last raid at Cabin Creek in this Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal-winning history.