The Blood of Caesar by Albert A. Bell Jr.

Privates: Lucien Burr Bell, Vann Ward, John Ketcher, Alfred Pigeon, Logan Pigeon, Jack Pigeon, Stand Suagee, Archibald Ballard, Edmond Duncan Carey, Olcut Moore, David Moore, John Moore, Jesse Pigeon, Daniel Squirrel, David Suagee, Charles Huss, Joseph Summerfield, Saladin Waite, Charles Lowery, Thomas Jefferson Woodall, Ned Moore and Jack Squirrel.Ĭaptain Robert Calvin Parks, First Lt. Dumplin O’Fields, Orderly Sergeant Henry Forrester. It has been impossible to obtain a roster of the several companies, but a fragmentary list of them, is:Ĭaptain Buzzard First Lt. Slover Sergeant Major, George West and Joseph Franklin Thompson. Walter Thompson Adair and William Davis Poison Chaplain, C. Watie Quarter Master, George Washington Adair Commissary, Joseph McMinn Starr, Sr. Other companies having been formed, they met near Fort Wayne on July 12, I861 and formed the Cherokee Mounted Rifle regiment and elected the following officers: Colonel Stand Watie Lieutenant Colonel, Thomas Fox Taylor Major, Elias Cornelius Boudinot Adjutant, Charles E.

Their service was in Delaware District and Neutral Land which was a legal part of that district. First Lieutenant Wilson Suagee, Second Lieutenant Charles Edwin Watie, Third Lieutenant and Henry Forrester, Orderly Sergeant. Stand Watie was the only Native American to attain a general‘s rank in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Early in 1861, he organized a company to cooperate with the confederacy.

When baptized by the Moravian missionaries he received a “Christian name” of Isaac S. Oo-wa-tie was born Decemand given the Cherokee name of Degadoga, meaning “he stands”.

The Blood of Caesar by Albert A. Bell Jr.