Episodes Located: Unorganized, Oklahoma in the 1860's

  1. Stand Watie Surrenders The Last CSA Forces
    date June 23, 1865map Unorganized, Oklahomatags The Confederate States of America, Civil War

    When the leaders of the Confederate Indians learned that the government in Richmond had fallen and the Eastern armies had been surrendered, they, too, began making their plans to seek peace with the Federal government. The chiefs convened the Grand Council on June 15, 1865, and passed resolutions calling for Indian commanders to lay down their arms and for emissaries to approach Federal authorities...

  2. The End of the Civil War in Indian Territory
    date 1864 to 1865map Unorganized, Oklahomatags Native-Americans, Politics, War

    The war in the West went on long after Lee surrendered, and not just because it took a little while for news to travel. The Confederates appeared utterly defeated, and yet some still were willing to fight. But the South was not the only problem for the North. Corruption was rampant in Forts Smith and Gibson (Indian Territory, now Oklahoma); safe havens for both southern and northern refugees, from...

  3. Ambush of Round Mountain
    date November 19, 1861map Unorganized, Oklahomatags Crime/Violence, Migration/Transportation, Native-Americans, Politics, Race-Relations, Slavery, War

    Many Indians disagreed to Secession, but not necessarily agree to abolition, either. Families owned slaves and continued to throughout the Civil War. Opoethleyohola, a Muscogee Creek Chief also known as Gouge, wished to remain neutral. Many other neutral Creeks followed him North of Indian Territory, which is now Oklahoma.

    Colonel Douglas H. Cooper had been persuaded that 'Gouge' was a threat...

  4. The Capture of the Steamship J. R. Williams
    date June 15, 1864map Unorganized, Oklahomatags Crime/Violence, Native-Americans, Science/Technology, War

    June 15, 1864, the USA Quartermaster Capt. Greene Durbin sent a "steam ferry boat" with supplies to Fort Gibson; Messrs. McDonald and Fuller, contractors of the Cherokee Nation included "Indian goods" to be distributed amongst those Indians there. They furnished it with military protection of one sergeant and twenty-four privates "under the command of Second Lieut. Horace A. B. Cook," Comp. K,...