Stand Watie
Stand Watie
Stand Watie— known as Standhope Uwatie, Degataga, 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. He commanded the Confederate Indian cavalry of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi, made up mostly of Cherokee, Muskogee and Seminole, and was the final Confederate general in the field to cease hostilities at war's end...
NationalityCherokee
ProfessionSoldier
Date of Birth12 December 1806
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I have always been opposed to killing women and children although our enemies have done it, yet I shall always protest against any acts of that kind.
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Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to be quite friendly towards me before the war, but it could not be helped.
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Sometimes I examine myself throughly and I will always come to the conclusion that I am not such a bad man at last as I am looked upon.
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If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.
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I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding.
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My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.