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Post by ndrthl on Jan 29, 2007 17:23:11 GMT -5
  ""Stand Watie (12 December 1806 – 9 September 1871) (also known as Degataga "stand firm") was a leader of the Cherokee Nation and a brigadier general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War [...] Watie was born near Rome, Georgia,on December 12, 1806, the son of Oo-watie (David Uwatie) and Susanna Reese, who was of Cherokee and white heritage". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_Watie |
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Post by tyrannos on Jan 29, 2007 18:11:07 GMT -5
Looks like an Amerindian plate.
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Post by drooperdoo on Jan 29, 2007 18:21:48 GMT -5
Both the Confederacy and the Union used Indians--usually in the largely irrelevant region beyond the Mississippi.
* Footnote: The recent bestseller Cold Mountain highlights the friendship between the main character and a Civil War commander in an Indian regiment.
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Post by Jack on Jan 29, 2007 21:27:14 GMT -5
He looks 100% Native American to me, and it almost seems like he would fit in among the Australian aborigines. Many NAs were sympathetic to the cause of the Confederates, especially in the Oklahoma territory, which became a defacto Southern state. It's also safe to say that men in blue uniforms, especially William Tecumseh Sherman, weren't popular with people who were both Native American *and* Southern. Sherman once liked Southerners, but he had genocidal feelings toward the NAs.
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