One of these, a young Cherokee named Gallegina Watie, stayed with him in Burlington on his way to the school.

Elias Boudinot ( born Gallegina Uwati, also spelled Watie ) ( 1802 – June 22, 1839 ), was a member of a prominent family of the Cherokee Nation in present-day Georgia.

In 1818 Cornelius selected Gallegina Watie and a few others to go to the Foreign Mission School.

The two so impressed each other that Gallegina asked for and was given permission to adopt the statesman's name.

Gallegina was born in 1802 into a leading Cherokee family in present-day Georgia, the eldest son of nine children of Uwati and Susanna Reese, who was of mixed Cherokee and European ancestry.

A master of hit-and-run cavalry tactics, Watie fought those Cherokee loyal to John Ross and Federal troops in Indian Territory and Arkansas, capturing Union supply trains and steamboats, and saving a Confederate army by covering their retreat after the Battle of Pea Ridge in March 1862.

" The resulting political turmoil led to the killings of Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot ; of the leaders of the Treaty Party, only Stand Watie escaped death.

Watie had killed James Foreman, one of the attackers of Major Ridge, Watie's uncle, who was killed in 1839 together with his son John Ridge and brother Elias Boudinot.

Stand Watie, his brother Elias Boudinot, their uncle Major Ridge and cousin John Ridge, along with several other Treaty Party men, were attacked.

Cherokee Indian leader Major Ridge, along with his son John Ridge and Stand Watie, met with the United States and ceded the land in Georgia for land in Oklahoma.

The Treaty Party included John Ridge, Major Ridge, Elias Boudinot, David Watie, Stand Watie, Willam Coody ( Ross ' nephew ), William Hicks ( Ross ' cousin ), Andrew Ross ( John's younger brother ), John Walker Jr., John Fields, John Gunter, David Vann, Charles Vann, Alexander McCoy, W. A.

The General Council in October 1835 rejected the proposed treaty but appointed a committee to go to Washington City to negotiate a removal treaty, a committee including not only John Ross but treaty advocates John Ridge, Charles Vann, and Elias Boudinot ( who was later replaced by Stand Watie ), to represent the Cherokee Nation East for a removal treaty with the stipulation that it has to be for more than five million dollars.

After Schermerhorn returned to Washington with the signed treaty, John Ridge and Stand Watie added their names.

The list of targets included Major Ridge, John Ridge, Elias Boudinot, Stand Watie, John A.

On 22 June 1839, teams ranging up to twenty-five in number converged on the houses of John Ridge, Major Ridge, and Elias Boudinot, and murdered them ; their attempt on Stand Watie was unsuccessful.

Though Ross denied any connection to the killings, Stand Watie blamed the Principal Chief.

After these " murders " ( as Watie called them ), followers of Watie and Ross engaged for years in violent conflict and retaliation.

Ross partisans killed Stand's brother Thomas Watie in 1845.

Ross ’ partisans blamed Brown ’ s actions on the members of the Treaty Party, particularly those, such as the Ridge and Watie families, who had emigrated prior to the forced removal.

* 1865 – American Civil War: at Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate, Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.

* June 23 – American Civil War: At Fort Towson in Oklahoma Territory, Confederate General Stand Watie, a Cherokee Indian, surrenders the last significant Rebel army.

Boudinot's brother Stand Watie fought and survived that day, escaping to Arkansas.

Stand Watie, the leader of the Ridge Party, raised a regiment for Confederate service in 1861.

Watie was elected Principal Chief of the pro-Confederacy majority.

On June 25, 1865, two months after Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, Stand Watie became the last Confederate General to stand down.

Following the Battle of Doaksville, Brigadier General Stand Watie, a Confederate commander of the Cherokee Nation, became the last Confederate general to surrender in the American Civil War, on 23 June 1865.

They include an old Cherokee named Lone Watie, a young Navajo woman, and an elderly woman from Kansas and her granddaughter Wales rescued from Comancheros.

Kaufman cast Chief Dan George, who had been nominated for an Academy Award for Supporting Actor in Little Big Man as the old Cherokee Lone Watie.

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The only combat occurred when Stand Watie and his Confederate troops captured a Union steamboat on the Illinois River June 15, 1864.

In September 1864, General Watie and General Richard Gano did capture a Union supply train in the same location.

On 23 June 1865, Brigadier General Stand Watie, a Cherokee chief, agreed to terms and took his Choctaw Battalion out of the war.

Jay was named for Jay Washburn, a nephew of Stand Watie and grandson of an early-day Cherokee missionary.

On June 15, 1864, Confederate forces under Colonel Stand Watie attacked with cannon and small arms fire as the ship negotiated a bend at Pleasant Bluff.

This school continued until the outbreak of the Civil War, when Confederate forces commanded by General Stand Watie.

Confederate General Stand Watie established a headquarters at Webbers Falls during the Civil War.

In 1863, Union troops tried to capture Watie, but failed.

In areas more distant from the main theaters of operations, Confederate forces in Alabama and Mississippi under Lieutenant General Richard Taylor, in Arkansas under Brigadier General M. Jeff Thompson, in Louisiana and Texas under General E. Kirby Smith and in Indian Territory under Brigadier General Stand Watie surrendered on May 4, 1865, May 12, 1865, May 26, 1865 ( officially June 2, 1865 ) and June 28, 1865, respectively.

Watie was born in Oothcaloga, Cherokee Nation ( now Calhoun, Georgia ) on December 12, 1806, the son of Uwatie ( Cherokee for " the ancient one "), a full-blood Cherokee, and Susanna Reese, daughter of a white father and Cherokee mother.

By this time, Ridge's cousin Elias Boudinot ( the oldest son of David Watie ) had announced his engagement, also to a woman from Cornwall, Connecticut.

Stand Watie and his supporters, the majority of the Nation, sided with the Confederacy ( he served as an officer in their army, along with other Cherokee.

In 1853 he settled in Fayetteville, Arkansas near the Cherokee, and renewed contact with his uncle Stand Watie.

Stand Watie ( December 12, 1806 – September 9, 1871 ; also known as Standhope Uwatie, Degataga (), meaning “ stand firm ”, 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.

Prior to removal of the Cherokee to Indian Territory in the late 1830s, Watie and his older brother Elias Boudinot were among leaders who signed the Treaty of New Echota in 1835.

During the American Civil War and soon after, Watie served as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation ( 1862-1866 ).

Watie led the Southern Cherokee delegation to Washington after the war to sue for peace, hoping to have tribal divisions recognized.

" Along with his two brothers and sisters, Stand Watie learned to read and write English at the Moravian mission school in Spring Place, Cherokee Nation ( now Georgia ).

Stand Watie occasionally helped write articles for the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper, for which his older brother Elias served as editor from 1828-1832.

Believing that removal was inevitable, the Watie brothers favored securing Cherokee rights by treaty before relocating to Indian Territory.

In 1835, Watie, his family, and many other Cherokee emigrated to Indian Territory ( eastern present-day Oklahoma ).