Brilliant Victory: The Second Civil War Battle of Cabin Creek in Indian Territory - Historical Book for Civil War Enthusiasts & American History Buffs

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The book chronicles the successful raid led by Confederate brigadier generals Richard M. Gano and Stand Watie. On September 19, 1864, their rag tag force consisting of 2,000 Texas and Indian troops, surprised and captured a Union supply train of 300 wagons, including 1,800 mules and horses at the Cabin Creek station, Cherokee Nation. Watie and Gano’s men made it safely back to the Confederate lines with 130 wagons filled with much need supplies and 740 mules. The captured supplies were later estimated to have been worth more than $1.5 million in 1864 dollars. In a congratulatory order published in October of 1864, Lieutenant General Edmund Kirby-Smith, the commander of all Confederate forces west of the Mississippi River, noted the success of "one of the most brilliant raids of the entire war." Watie, Gano and their respective commands received a special commendation from the Confederate Congress in January of 1865 for the capture of the wagon train.

Steven L. Warren

2002, cloth, 8.5" x 11", Index, 224 pp.

ISBN: 9780944619665

111-W1966