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Article: Cherokee's raids aid Confederacy.(TRAVEL)(THE CIVIL WAR)

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March 5, 2005
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Byline: Peter Cliffe, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

For a nonwhite to become an officer in either the Union or the Confederate army was a singular achievement, and for one to be made a general was quite remarkable. Yet a man who was three-quarters Cherokee did just that, and his successful career ensured that he is still remembered.

When in 1995 the U.S. Postal Service issued a set of Civil War commemorative stamps, his portrait was included. His tribal name was Degataga (although on the stamp this is given as Degadoga), but he is far better known as Stand Watie.

He was born on Dec. 12, 1806, in the Oothcaloga Valley of Georgia. His Indian ...

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