A Creek Warrior for the Confederacy: The Autobiography of Chief G. W. Grayson"The publication of George Washington Grayson's autobiography brings to light perhaps the only existing written account of a nineteenth-century Indian leader. Born in 1843 near present-day Eufaula, Oklahoma, Grayson served as a Confederate army officer during the Civil War and in various offices of the Creek Nation from 1870 until his death in 1920. . . .Baird has produced an excellent edition that makes Grayson's autobiography more accessible and that should bring it the attention it deserves."–Montana: Magazine of Western History |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
George Washington Grayson chief of the Creeks | 8 |
Early Forebears | 12 |
An Indian Boyhood | 32 |
G W Stidham Graysons fatherinlaw | 44 |
To School in the States | 46 |
Creek Burial Ground | 50 |
Off to the Wars | 58 |
The Shadow of Death | 108 |
Lt Pleasant Porter Creek Mounted Volunteers | 112 |
Peace and Home | 116 |
National Treasurer | 130 |
Samuel Checote chief of the Creeks 186775 | 132 |
Wash Grayson son of G W Grayson and himself | 142 |
The Passing of a Nation | 147 |
Isparhecher chief of the Creeks 189599 | 156 |
Pilot Grayson brother of G W Grayson | 65 |
Life of a Soldier | 73 |
Battling the Enemy | 89 |
Creek Indians en route to vote circa 1903 | 163 |
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