Founded in 1824 near the Red River borderlands, Fort Towson served the U.S. Army, the Choctaw Nation region and later Confederate forces. The site also connects directly with nearby Doaksville, where Stand Watie surrendered in 1865.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
Something wrong with this entry?
Source: okhistory.org/sites/forttowson