My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
About Stand Watie
Brigadier-General Stand Watie (Cherokee: degataga, romanized: Degataga, lit. ‘Stand firm’; December 12, 1806 – September 9, 1871), also known as Standhope Uwatie and Isaac S. Watie, was a Cherokee politician who served as the second principal chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1862 to 1866. The Cherokee Nation allied with the Confederate States during the American Civil War, and he was subsequently the only Native American Confederate general officer.
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Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to be quite friendly towards me before the war, but it could not be helped.
2nd principal chief of the Cherokee Nation
I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding.
2nd principal chief of the Cherokee Nation
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
2nd principal chief of the Cherokee Nation
If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.
2nd principal chief of the Cherokee Nation