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The fort was used as the headquarters of Confederate General Samuel B. Maxey. The last remaining Confederate Army troops were commanded by General Stand Watie , a principal chief of his nation until the end of the war. He surrendered to Union forces at Fort Towson on June 23, 1865. The post was abandoned at the close of the Civil War.
William McIntosh (c. 1775 – April 30, 1825), [1] also known as Tustunnuggee Hutke (White Warrior), was one of the most prominent chiefs of the Muscogee Creek Nation between the turn of the 19th-century and his execution in 1825. He was a chief of Coweta tribal town and commander of a mounted police force. He became a large-scale planter ...
William Dutch or Tahchee (Cherokee: ᏔᏥ, romanized: Tatsi; c. 1790–1848) was a prominent leader of the Cherokee "Old Settlers" in the American West. He was renowned as a notorious enemy of the Osage tribe , and a spokesman for the Cherokee.
William Bradford was born in Virginia in 1771. He moved to Kentucky at an unknown date. Settling in Muhlenberg County in 1799, he became a local leader. [1] He won distinctions that included a commission as deputy sheriff, a captaincy in the county militia, and was elected four times to the Kentucky House of Representatives.
Tishomingo became chief of the Chickasaw when they started on the trail and led the people until his death in 1838 en route, near the Arkansas River. Neither he nor Colbert, who died en route in 1839 at age 75, reached the new Chickasaw territory. He died near Fort Towson, Indian Territory, just before the people reached their new lands. [1]
Will Rogers’ historic ranch house, owned by the famous social commentator, actor and performer, and the Topanga Ranch Motel, built by newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst, were victims of the ...
William Clyde Thompson (c. 1839–1912) was a Texas Choctaw-Chickasaw leader of the Mount Tabor Indian Community in Texas and an officer of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. After moving north to the Chickasaw Nation in 1889, he led an effort to gain enrollment of his family and other Texas Choctaws as Citizens by blood of ...
Warren Police Commissioner William Dwyer in his office at the Christopher M. Wouters Police Headquarters in Warren on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. Losing Michael taught his dad a tragic lesson.