[lentulusgracchus]

near Andrews, NC.

Was that anywhere near "Mayland", the were-republic that supposedly seceded from the Carolina government?

Wonder why the Union men were so tough on the Cherokee? Because the Oklahoma Cherokee had sided with the Confederates? And I wouldn't know whether the eastern Cherokee had any particularly strong allegiance to the CSA, either, or were Unionists like so many of the Appalachian Scots-Irish who hearkened back to Andy Jackson.

[Tax-chick]

whether the eastern Cherokee had any particularly strong allegiance to the CSA,

See my post #25, or thereabouts ... what I've read recently indicates that the Eastern Cherokees were largely indifferent to the Confederate/Union question.

[stand watie]

according to our tribal secretary, by 1864 essentially EVERY Cherokee male over the age of 14 & under the age of 70,in the whole country, had borne arms for the CSA.

not a few women served the TRUE CAUSE as well;women have always been accepted as warriors in our tradition.

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