General Stand Watie, Cherokee and Confederate cavalryman, becomes the last C.S.A. general to surrender

Stand Watie, a leading chief of the Cherokee Nation, commanded the Indian Cavalry of the Confederacy's Army of the Trans-Mississippi with the rank of brigadier-general.  Near Doaksville in Indian Territory, he surrendered his forces to Lieutenant-Colonel A.C. Matthews, the last Confederate general to surrender.  His men were allowed to disperse to their homes.  (By John Osborne)