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To: stand watie

fyi, he was TOO POOR to buy a horse, so he borrowed a "good, young red mule" from a cousin & rode her throughout the WBTS.

Why didn't he sell one of his slaves and buy one?

260 posted on 04/12/2007 4:34:31 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)

To: Non-Sequitur

you KNOW that what you posted is a, KNOWING, outrageous, DAMNyankee LIE.

while some members in his family had money, BG Stand Watie was NEVER "well off".

free dixie,sw

277 posted on 04/12/2007 9:12:22 PM PDT by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)

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