1. BATTLES IN OKLAHOMA –CIVIL WAR
COACH BROWN
OKLAHOMA HISTORY

2. LOYAL CREEK FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL
Opothleyahola
Muscugee Creek Nation
Loyal Creek – 6500 Native Americans from several different tribes
Treaty with South wanted to remain loyal to the North.
Refered to President Lincoln as the “Great Father”

3. PATH OF THE LOYAL CREEK TO KANSAS
CONFEDERATE COLONEL COOPER
CAMPED AT DEEP FORK AND NOTH FORK OF THE CANADIAN RIVER
NOVEMBER 19, 1861 – ROUND MOUNTAIN
DECEMBER 9, 1861 – CHUSTO TALASAH OR CAVING BANKS ON BIRD CREEK
DECEMBER 26, 1861 – CHUSTENAHLAH (WEST OF SKIATOOK)
FLED TO KANSAS AND WERE REFUGES. MANY LOST FEET AND HANDS FROM FROST BITE.

4. PEA RIDGE MARCH 1862 NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
10,000 UNION SOLDIERS AND 16,000 CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS
NORTH WAS LED BY – BRIGADIER GENERAL SAMUEL CURTIS
SOUTH WAS LED BY – MAJOR GENERAL EARL VAN DORN
4600 CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS WERE KILLED
800 CHEROKEE FOUGHT FOR THE SOUTH
THIS LOSS WEAKENED THE SOUTHS POSITON IN THE WEST

5. INDIAN EXPEDITION
Union Leaders in Kansas put together an summoned troops from Northern States.
Union General James Blunt and Colonel William Weer
Stand Watie’s Cavalry – Confederate
Union took over Fort Gibson and Tahlequah
John Ross – protective custody
Battle in Northwest Arkansas Confederates retreated to Fort Wayne in Indian Territory.
Blunt drove them out were they left cannon, supplies and fifty prisoners

6. BATTLE AT CABIN CREEK
Union troops made up of Native Americans, Black and Whites
Lead by Colonel James M. Williams – to bring supplies and food Native American in Indian Territory that still lived there.
On there way Stand Waties raided the supply train.
Union won after a bloody battle and the supply train made in safely to Fort Gibson

7. Stand Watie

8. THE BATTLE AT HONEY SPRINGS
UNION HAD WON GETTYSBURG AND VICKSBURG
Confederates planned to combine forces to take over Fort Gibson.
Blunt attacked early on July
Indian and Black Infantries helped win this battle
This was the Major Battle fought on Indian Territory