Stand Watie
Stand Watie
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...
NationalityCherokee
ProfessionSoldier
Date of Birth12 December 1806
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I have always been opposed to killing women and children although our enemies have done it, yet I shall always protest against any acts of that kind.