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Stand Watie

Watie, Stand (1806–71), Native American brigadier general in the Confederate Army. This Cherokee leader volunteered for the Confederate Army in 1861 and led a Cherokee regiment known as the Cherokee Mounted Rifles.

See also: Civil War, U.S.

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