Brigadier General Stand Watie
After visiting Fort Towson the employee sent me to Fort Towson Cemetery and he told me to go over the stone wall and down the path, this is where the last confederate general surrender his command. He couldn’t remember what his name was but that was easy to find out, thank you google. General Stand Watie, a Native American, realizing he was fighting a losing battle, he surrendered his unit on June 23, 1865. The men where Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, and Osage Indians. Born in 1806 to a Cherokee father and mixed race mother (half-Cherokee, half-European). He was born with he given Cherokee name Degataga which means “stand firm.” But later his father was baptized in a Moravian church as David Uwatie, and his father changed his name to Isaac S Uwatie. Growing up Stand went to Moravian school. But Isaac combined both his names to become Stand Watie. David became a wealthy planter and who also owned slaves. Stand joined the south more for the fact that the Union was th...