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hello,
there is a hill couple miles west of present town of
wagoner, ok. i am pretty sure is called blue mound on
old topo. maps. during the civil war in okla. there were
few major battles as thought of back east in the south.
but there were a handful, one was called the second battle
of big cabin, i.t. it was made up of about 2 thousand
texas confed. calvary soldiers and 3 or 4 thousand creek
and cherokee indian confed. soldiers. and a large party
union soldier with at lest 100 wagons coming down with
supplys to ft. gibson, i.t. down the texas road that
follows hwy 69 today. too your part the confed. forces
crossed the arkansas river near choska(south of present)
coweta and travelled too the fairy crossing on the veredris
river at sandtown(sandtown was very near were hwy 51 between
coweta and wagoner now crosses the river. i beleave records
show that they travelled too large hill near texas road
to use as lookout for union troops suppose to be coming
up road. they spotted a company of union hayers near flat
rock creek which from my maps looks to be visable in distance from blue mound. they attach the union soldiers
(negro soldiers) and killed nearly all of them accept for
a handful that got in the creek and hid. and from there
went on to the cabin creeks big battle took the 100+ wagons
in the battle.
so i am quessing that flat rock creek battle is your battle
because they started the attach by leaving blue mound for
the creek. this sounds like a cruel attack and it was
because of the numbers, but it was common on both sides
in i.t. most fighting here was guerila warfair and small
bands that destroyed and killed at randon here. at the
end of the war when missionary were returning to restart
the schools they noted passing the breached white bones
along the texas road at flat rock, were they had never
been buried.
this battle i believe is in a book by the same name and
maybe a history video ( battle of cabin creek}.
thanks tony
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