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Watie (1806-1871), was a Cherokee chief who signed the treating forcing removal
of the Cherokees from Georgia to the Indian Territory (present day
Oklahoma). During the American Civil War
he joined the Confederate cause, raising and commanding the first volunteer
Cherokee regiment, the Cherokee Mounted Rifles.
Appointed as a colonel, Watie was promoted to brigadier general in 1864
after many successful engagements as a raider and cavalry commander in the Trans-Mississippi
Theater of Operations. Watie was the
last Confederate general to surrender (June 23, 1865).
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