Last To Surrender

To purchase E-Book click here http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/last-to-surrender/7362973 Author Donovan Harrison
Presents his new book LAST TO SURRENDER.

June 23,1865. When the leaders of the Confederate indians learned that the government in Richmond had fallen and the Eastern armies had been surrended,they,too,began making their plans to seek peace with the Federal government. The chiefs convened the Grand Council June 15 and passed resolutions calling for Indian commanders to lay down their arms and for emissaries to approach Federal authorities for peace terms.

The largest force in Indian Territory was commanded by Confederate Brig.Gen.
Stand Watie, who was also a chief of the Cherokee Nation. Dedicated to the
Confederate cause and unwilling to admit defeat, he kept his troops in the field for nearly a month after Lt. Gen.E.Kirby Smith surrendered the Trans-
Mississippi May 26. Finally accepting the futility of continued resistance, on June 23 Watie rode into Doaksville near Fort Towson in Indian Territory and
surrended his battalion of Creek,
Seminole, Cherokee, and Osage Indians to Lt.Col.Asa C.Matthews, appointed a few weeks earlier to negotiate a peace with the Indians. Watie was the last Confederate general officer to surrender his command.

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[TheBlackSkif]

One of the soldiers of Stand Watie, recalled: "... for Watie you could even go into the jaws of death. He gave a command and then himself rushed forward, and we rushed to the battle yelling for him. We fought like tigers, each of us against three enemies. Apparently, Watie is cherished by spirits - it was all against us.

[parafleet]

"What stupid people they are! They can do nothing and their continued defeats should convince them of it. They have lost six great battles; we have captured six hundred and eight cannon, nearly one hundred thousand stands of arms, made twenty thousand prisoners, have the greatest portion of their country and are fast advancing on their Capital which must be ours,—yet they refuse to treat!"-Kirby Smith, 1847, on continuing Mexican resistance.

..Oh..the irony..

[forttowson312010]

i'm choctaw but i feel proud to be from my part of the world but believe it or not where he was when he surrendered i've only been there once and didn't know about it until 9th grade

[ndnkid6]

this makes me fell prod 2 ba an osage indian

[operationgardenplot]

Have you seen The History Channels

Indain Warriors: The untold story of the civil war?

[percmpnl]

This story is easy to ready, and understand. While the story starts off slow, by the end of the book, I wanted to know what happens next. Those that grew up in the 40's and 50's in the midwest or in the country or on a reservation; For all readers both young an silver haired will be able to identify with the main character Stand Watie. All the characters where real people.

[indymindy22]

Very entertaining and historical novel.