Watie and Gano capture a Union supply train at Cabin Creek
September 19, 1864, Cabin Creek station, Oklahoma.
- Date
- September 19, 1864
- Where
- Cabin Creek station, Oklahoma
- What happened
- Captured
- Event
- 128 of 174
A wagon train from Fort Scott carried supplies for Native American refugees camped near Fort Gibson. Stand Watie's and Richard Gano's Confederates attacked it at Cabin Creek at 1 a.m. and routed its escort by 9 a.m. They took about $1 million in wagons, mules and commissary stores, including 740 mules and 130 wagons.
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