Osage Battalion
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The Osage Battalion was a Native American unit of the Confederate States Army. Recruited from among the Osage tribe, whose loyalties were split between the Union and Confederacy, it did not meet its 5
Black Dog II pictured in 1876
Stand Watie pictured after the war
John Allen Mathews
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John Allen Mathews was an American frontiersman and slave owner who settled among the Osage Nation and later advocated and died for the Confederate States of America.
Osage Battalion
…upon the Osage were the Jesuit mission at Osage Mission's post in Neosho County, whose members generally favored the Union, and the prominent merchant John Allen Mathews, who favored the Confederacy. After the outbreak of the war, the Confederacy was keen to sign military treaties with the Indian tribes to secure their…
Mathews circa. 1851–1861