Stand Watie marker, December 1959 [Watie monument] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1959.

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Stand Watie marker, December 1959 [Watie monument] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1959.

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Negative taken for December 9, 1959, Arkansas Gazette article "Cherokee General Fought Well as Confederate," B1:2. At Polson Cemetery near Grove, Delaware County, Oklahoma, is a marker to Stand Watie, the only full blood Native American to serve as a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army. The marker was erected in 1921 by the Oklahoma Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Watie died in 1871 and is buried at another location in the cemetery.

1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 4 cm. (2 x 1 in.)

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