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High Voltage Transmission Lines now traverse over the core battlefield land at Chusto-Talasah. Photo taken in July 2011 by Jeffrey S. Williams. The Battle of Chusto-Talasah, also known as Bird Creek, Caving Banks, and High Shoal, was fought December 9, 1861, in what is now Tulsa County, Oklahoma (then Indian Territory) during the American Civil ...
The 9th Texas Cavalry Regiment was a unit of mounted volunteers that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.The regiment fought at Round Mountain and Bird Creek (Chusto-Talasah) in 1861, Pea Ridge, Siege of Corinth, Second Corinth, Hatchie's Bridge and the Holly Springs Raid in 1862, and in the Atlanta campaign, Franklin, and Murfreesboro in 1864.
Battle of Chusto-Talasah [16] December 9, 1861 near modern Tulsa: American Civil War Trail of Blood on Ice 15+ [17] Creek & Seminole vs Confederate States of America Battle of Chustenahlah [18] December 26, 1861 near modern Skiatook: American Civil War Trail of Blood on Ice 9+ [19] Creek & Seminole vs Confederate States of America Battle of ...
They attacked Chief Opothleyahola's band of Creek and Seminole (led by Chief Halek Tustenuggee) at the battles of Round Mountain and Chusto-Talasah. The Confederates wanted to finish off the Indians by attacking them in their camp at Chustenahlah (corruption of the Cherokee word "U-s-ta-la-na", meaning a shoal or sandbar in a stream or creek ...
Battle of Chusto-Talasah: 9th Texas Cavalry Regiment: William B. Sims: Victory December 1861 Battle of Chustenahlah: 32nd Texas Cavalry Regiment: Julius A. Andrews: Victory February 1862 Battle of Fort Donelson: 7th Texas Infantry Regiment: John Gregg: Loss April 1862 Battle of Shiloh: 8th Texas Cavalry Regiment (Terry's Texas Rangers) Benjamin ...
The second engagement, the Battle of Chusto-Talasah also known as "Caving Banks," was fought on December 9, 1861 near Sperry, Oklahoma. For almost four hours, Cooper attacked and attempted to outflank the Federals, finally driving them east across Bird Creek just before dark.
During the battle, the 3rd Texas Cavalry was assigned to Hebert's brigade in Lewis Henry Little's division. [18] A few weeks earlier, the 3rd Texas Cavalry sent their horses to graze so they fought the battle on foot. Hebert ordered the regiment to form a skirmish line and advance into a ravine in front of the Union positions. [19]
Native American activity in the area antedates the establishment of the town. Of note during the Civil War was the Battle of Chusto-Talasah, fought approximately nine miles southeast on the “Caving Banks” bend of Bird Creek, where on December 9, 1861, Opothleyahola’s Union-allied Indians met the forces of Col. D.H. Cooper’s Confederate troops.