Cabin Creek Battlefield

Cabin Creek Battlefield is an Oklahoma historical marker in Mayes County.

Mayes County · on US-69, four miles north of Adair

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On September 18, 1864, a Confederate force of mainly 2,000 men, Gen. Stand Watie’s Indian Brigade, intercepted a Union supply train en route from Kansas to Fort Gibson. The convoy was captured after a heavy engagement. This was the last major Civil War engagement in Indian Territory. Earlier, in July 1863, Confederate forces were defeated in a small skirmish here.

Cabin Creek Battlefield historic site is located approximately eight miles east of this marker’s location. Note from the marker program.

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