[stand watie]

then you need to do some more reading from other than damnyankee-inspired sources.

Dora Gray stated to me in 1991 that a survey of the tribal membership in the WBTS period indicates that almost every male, capable of bearing arms, did so for the TRUE CAUSE. MANY Cherokee women also served in the military forces of the CSA.

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[Tax-chick]

The book I read did not say that the Cherokees did not fight for the South in NC, only that they did so out of loyalty to their chief, rather than from convictions regarding secession or other issues under dispute.