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)
Source Citation
Chronicles of the Great Rebellion Against the United States of America (Philadelphia, PA: A. Winch, 1867), 108.
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    Battles/Soldiers
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