Daniel
Newnan McIntosh, often identified as D. N. McIntosh, was a Creek
rancher, soldier and politician, the youngest son of Creek Chief William
McIntosh. He was a member of one of the
most influential Lower Creek families of the 19th century; after they
migrated west in 1828, they continued as leaders of what was then called
the Western Creek Nation.
During the War Between the States, D.N. McIntosh organized a regiment
and joined the Confederate States Army as a colonel. He was notable for
recruiting and organizing the 1st Creek Mounted Volunteers and for
leading them in several battles in Indian Territory. After the war, he
continued as a farmer and rancher.
After his father was executed
by order of the Creek National Council in 1825 for having ceded communal
Creek territory to the United States in violation of tribal law, the
surviving members of the family moved to Indian Territory in 1828, where
they settled on the Verdigris River. They established what was known as
the Western Creek Nation for some time. Daniel was sent back East to be
educated at Smith's Institute in Kentucky until 1841. D. N. later
moved to a site near the community of Fame, in what is now McIntosh
County, Oklahoma. He developed a farm and also raised cattle. He was
also a Baptist preacher.
At the outbreak of the War Between the
States, Daniel N. McIntosh organized and served as a Colonel of the 1st
Creek Mounted Volunteers (later known as the First Creek Cavalry
Regiment, C.S.A.). Daniel's elder brother, Chilly McIntosh, organized
and served as a Colonel of the 2nd Creek Mounted Volunteers (later known
as the Second Creek Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A.) which was under the
administrative command of Daniel N. McIntosh. D.N. McIntosh was
organizing the 3rd Creek Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A., which would have
entitled him to the rank of Brigadier General in the Confederate Army.
But the war ended before he received that rank. Eight members of the
McIntosh family served in Colonel McIntosh's regiment.
His
regiment fought in the following battles: Round Mountain, Chusto-Talasah
(Shoal Creek), Chustenahlah, Pea Ridge, Old Fort Wayne, Honey Springs
and Cabin Creek. Colonel McIntosh's Regiment was one of General Stand
Watie's units having the distinction of being one of the last
Confederate military units to surrender to Union military forces on 23
June 1865 near Doaksville, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory.
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Hebrew Confederate Major Simon Mayer of Natchez, MS enlisted as a
private in the 10th MS Infantry in March of 1862 at the age of 23. He
spent time in the 9th as well. Simon fought in many battles including
Shiloh, Chickamauga, and Missionary Ridge.
One of his family
stories states Simon was galloping across a battlefield when a bullet
passed through his hat, barely missing his head. He was initially
reported as killed in action, which in turn got his sisters to attempt
to get his body and and prepare for his burial. But they received a
telegram confirming that he was, in fact, alive. Simon was a very short
man, only 4 foot 8 inches tall, which may have been in his favor in
battles. His kindness toward the wounded was legendary among his
compatriots and one of them related an instance of Major Mayer
dismounting from his horse to allow a wounded soldier to ride while he
walked alongside him.
Even after the surrender, Mayer adhered to
the right and truth of the Confederate Cause. He wrote, "We have still
made an honest and glorious fight and as the boys express it, 'have kept
the flies off the Yanks for the past 4 years.'
