A member of the Cherokee Nation, Stand Watie is the only Native American to achieve this.
- A U. S. cabinet post
- President of a railroad
- Become a brigadier general during the Civil War
- Mexican citizenship
A member of the Cherokee Nation, Stand Watie is the only Native American to achieve this.
Become a brigadier general during the Civil War. Watie fought for the confederacy. Among his many successes were the capture of the Union steamboat J.R. Williams and seizing of a Union wagon supply train carrying $15 million in supplies.