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Image: Confederate delegates at Washington, D.C. From left to right: John Rollin Ridge, Saladin Ridge Watie (Stand Watie’s son), Richard Fields (formerly of Drew’s regiment), Elias Cornelious Boudinot, and William Penn Adair. Credit: University of Oklahoma Press and Archives and Manuscripts Division, Oklahoma Historical Society.
