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

Stand Watie, Boudinot's brother, was also attacked but he survived.

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.

His brother Stand Watie was attacked but survived.

Stand Watie killed a man whom he had seen attack his uncle Major Ridge ; Watie was acquitted on the grounds of self defense.

His first notable victory as a lawyer was defending his uncle Stand Watie against murder charges.

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 ( 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.

Watie in 1842 killed one of his uncle's attackers, and in 1845 his brother Thomas Watie was killed in retaliation, in the continuing cycle of violence.

Watie was acquitted at trial in the 1850s on the grounds of self-defense.

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.

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

In the 1850s Stand Watie was tried in Arkansas for the murder of Foreman ; he was acquitted on the grounds of self defense.

Watie was one of only two Native Americans on either side of the Civil War to rise to a brigadier general's rank.

After the war, Watie was a member of the Cherokee Deligation ( south ) to the Southern Treaty Commission which renegotiated treaties with the United States.

Stand Watie was elected principal chief of the pro-Confederate Cherokee, who increasingly outnumbered pro-Union elements.

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.

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.

In the 1830s, he was part of the Treaty Party with his father Major Ridge and cousins Elias Boudinot and Stand Watie.

) Gallegina's younger brothers were Isaac, better known as Stand Watie, who served with the Confederate Army during the American Civil War and served as Principal Chief ( 1862-1866 ); and Thomas Watie.

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

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

Stand Watie and a majority of the Nation ( including most slaveholders ) were pro-Confederacy, and he served as Principal Chief ( 1862-1866 ) of this group.

* Chief Dan George as Lone Watie

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.

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.

After a majority of the Cherokee Nation voted to support the Confederacy in the American Civil War, Watie organized a regiment of cavalry.

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

* 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.

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.

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.

" 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.

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.

General Stand Watie and Brig.

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.

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.