Cherokee Confederates

[RS Davis]

[glow=red,2,300]Leonard M. Scruggs Wrote:[/glow]Many have no doubt heard of the valor of the Cherokee warriors under the command of Brigadier General Stand Watie in the West and of Thomas’ famous North Carolina Legion in the East during the War for Southern Independence from 1861 to 1865. But why did the Cherokees and their brethren, the Creeks, Seminoles, Choctaws, and Chickasaws determine to make common cause with the Confederate South against the Northern Union? To know their reasons is very instructive as to the issues underlying that tragic war. Most Americans have been propagandized rather than educated in the causes of the war, all this to justify the perpetrators and victors. Considering the Cherokee view uncovers much truth buried by decades of politically correct propaganda and allows a broader and truer perspective.

- Rick

[Armed Citizen]

After the Reconstruction Act was passed in 1867 the radical abolitionists and radical Republicans were able to issue in a shameful era of politically punitive and economically exploitive oppression in the South, the results of which lasted many years, and even today are not yet completely erased.

There is history written by the winner and few note the Cherokee.

I didn't know they had written their own 'secession'.
Thanks for the info Rick

[RS Davis]

Armed said:

There is history written by the winner and few note the Cherokee.

I didn't know they had written their own 'secession'.
Thanks for the info Rick

No, problem. Thanks for reading it. I wonder what history would show about the revolutionaries if the British had won...

- Rick