[AuntB]

After a couple years of the war and the Union and Pins destroying everything they had, they couldn't buy much and the confederacy really didn't give them much. The slaves were mostly fighting along side their masters. As for horses, in one of Sarah Watie's letters she references one horse that she can get $600.00 for, that was near the end of the war. Horses were rare and expensive, but I hadn't heard Watie didn't have a horse. Hardly any of them had regular CSA uniforms.

I'm close to done with this book about a lot of this. You'll understand it more as you learn more.

Actually, there is a letter from Watie to his wife during the war, where he is telling her she needs to send him a 'domestic'. It will take me some time to find, and I don't have the time now, but remind me if I forget.

[stand watie]

PLEASE do.

i appreciate your help.

fyi, i was "talking with" a coworker at my night job about this subject (Gerry is a Creek/French halfbreed & a WBTS reenactor.).

he said, "i wonder IF the REASON there seems to be a "disconnect" here is that the General SOLD most everything he had to outfit the 1st Mounted Cherokee Rifles. Many southern officers did just that."

is Gerry correct??? i simply don't know. nonetheless, it's ONE possible explaination.

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