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 his
foreword, Brad Agnew discusses Watie's role in the Civil War and
his reception by later historians.
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