Round Mountain (November 19, 1861)

Caving Banks AKA Chusto-Talasah and Bird Creek (December 9, 1861)

Chustenahlah (December 26, 1861)

Cowskin Prairie (July 3, 1862)

Locust Grove (July 4, 1862)

Fort Wayne (October 22, 1862)

Tonkawa Massacre (October 23, 1862)

Fort Davis (December 27, 1862)

1st Cabin Creek (July 1-2, 1863)

Webbers Falls (1863)

Honey Springs (July 17, 1863)

Perryville (August 26, 1863)

Backbone Mountain AKA Devil’s Backbone (September 1, 1863)

Muddy Boggy AKA Middle Boggy (February 13, 1864)

2nd Cabin Creek (September 19, 1864)

Boggy Depot (1865)

The last Confederate General to surrender his Army in the field was the Cherokee Brigadier General Stand Watie. He Surrendered at Doaksville (located in present day Choctaw County Oklahoma), in the Choctaw Nation, on June 23, 1865. This was nearly three months after the surrender of General Robert E. Lee.

Other Important War Between the States Sites in Indian Territory

Fort Gibson

Fort Arbuckle

Old Fort Arbuckle

Fort Washita

Camp Washita

Fort McCulloch

Fort Towson/Doaksville

Fort Coffee

Fort Holmes

In 1861 the area of present-day Oklahoma was known as “Indian Territory” (IT).  About 60,000 Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Indians (5 Civilized Tribes) resided in the eastern part of the Territory known as the Indian Nations with some 1,500 white men married to Indian women, and some 10,000 Negro slaves. About 2,500 Osage, Caddo, Wichita, Shawnee, and Delaware were part of the Indian Territory population. Approximately 3,000 Comanche, Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Kiowa-Arapaho were found in the western part of Indian Territory, the Texas panhandle, southeast Colorado, and southwest Kansas. Of these people, approximately 3,500 fought in the Union army while about 15,000 served the Confederacy.  Indian Territory gave a greater percentage of her population to the southern cause than any state except Virginia. Given the task of keeping invading Federal armies out of Texas, The Indian Nations suffered more destruction and loss of civilian life than any state of the Confederacy. But the Indians held; the Federals were never able to reach the Red River.

The fifteen thousand Confederate troops of Indian Territory, of whom no more than seven to eight thousand men were in the field at one given time were, by the end of the war, organized into a division of two brigades. Brigadier General Douglas H. Cooper commanded the division. Colonel Tandy Walker commanded the second, or Choctaw Brigade, composed of Choctaw and Chickasaw units. Brigadier General Stand Watie, a Cherokee, commanded all the Indian units not in the Choctaw Brigade.

Upcoming Indian Territory Battle Re-enactments

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Battle of Barren Fork--Canceled this year. --Tahlequah, IT

 

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT:
- Capt.Skip Taylor 415 Whitmore Dr., Tahlequah, OK 74464
    (918) 456-0287   email: 26texas@go.com Visit the 26th Texas Cavalry DeBray's Dismounted Rifles web page at  www.26thtexas.com

Honey Springs Candle light tour December 14 and 15, 2007  

Battle of Round Mountian Feb. 5 & 6, 2008

 

Battle of Perryville, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, Battle for the Choctaw Capitol March 1-2, 2008, This is our seventh year in this location, on the original battle and town site. Many improvements have been made, including a larger Union and Confederate campsite and enlarged battle area.  We hope to have a lot more re-enactors from Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas areas returning to this re-enactment and quite possibly some new faces also! 

http://www.battleofperryville.org/index1.htm 

Battle of Jefferson Texas May 2, 3 and 4 2008  THE LARGEST REENACTMENT IN TEXAS!  http://www.jefferson-texas.com/BattleofPortJefferson/tabid/2196/Default.aspx

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Other Events Around The Area

Kansas Red Legs came south into Indian Territory and found strong resistance from Native Americans who were allied with the Southern States and Confederates from Texas and Arkansas.