Boudinot, Elias Cornelius

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Elias Cornelius Boudinot
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    American Indian
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    Family
    Elias Boudinot (father), Stand Watie (uncle), Clara Minear (wife)
    Occupation
    Politician
    Attorney or Judge
    Journalist
    Military
    Confederate Army
    Household Size in 1860
    7
    Occupation in 1860
    Editor
    Residence in 1860
    Wealth in 1860
    400

    Elias Cornelius Boudinot (American National Biography)

    Scholarship
    Like his father, Boudinot was drawn to newspaper work, taking the editorship first of the Fayetteville Weekly Arkansian and then of the Little Rock True Democrat in 1860. Boudinot also became involved in Democratic and Confederate politics during this period, becoming chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee in 1860 and secretary of the Secession Convention the following year.

    The Civil War again split the Cherokees into two warring factions, with battles fought throughout the tribal nation between Union and Confederate Cherokee forces. Boudinot served briefly with his uncle Stand Watie's Confederate regiment, achieving the rank of lieutenant colonel. In 1863 the southern faction of the Cherokees elected Boudinot as their delegate to the Confederate Congress at Richmond. At the war's end, Boudinot represented the southern Cherokee faction in the negotiation of the Cherokees' 1866 treaty with the United States.
    Sharon O’Brien, "Boudinot, Elias Cornelius," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/20/20-00093.html.
    How to Cite This Page: "Boudinot, Elias Cornelius," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5146.