GENERAL STAND WATIE: The Only Indian Brigadier General of the Confederate Army and the Last General to Surrender. [Cover title: Life of General Stand Watie] by Anderson, Mabel Washbourne - 1915

Pryor, OK: Mabel W. Anderson | printed by the Mayes County Republican, 1915. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Octavo. 58 pp., illus. In later half morocco with corners by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; original wrappers and errata slip bound in. The binding is quite nice with only light wear; the wrappers have minor chips; generally a clean copy of a scarce book with postcard written and signed by Anderson in response to a request for a copy of her book.

A remarkably uncommon biography of the Confederate General written by his grandniece. Prior to the Civil War, Watie was an outspoken proponent of voluntary Cherokee removal to what is not Oklahoma, in fact he was a signatory to the Treaty of New Echota, a divisive act and condemned by many Cherokee. Watie migrated to Oklahoma while other members of the Cherokee nation refused and were eventually forcibly removed to the west over what has become known as the "Trail of Tears." Eberstadt calls the Cherokee Confederate general "one of the most prominent men of the Cherokee Nation during the most interesting and distracted period of their history" Eberstadt 111-481. General Watie would not surrender to Federal forces until 23 June 1865, nearly 3 months after Lee surrendered at Appomattox. "A roster of the surviving officers and soldiers of Stand Watie's brigade" (1st Cherokee regiment): p. 51-53. Rare in commerce, this book has only appeared once at auction since the Streeter sale. Howes A-232; CWB II, 36; Streeter 609; Gilcrease-Hargrett 80; Oxford American National Biography.