Meyer's Battalion Cherokee Cavalry

HISTORICAL NOTES:

1st (Meyer's) Battalion, Cherokee Cavalry is a "paper" organization that never existed. Major Benjamin W Meyer may have received authorization to raise a battalion early in the war, but he never did.

OFFICERS:

Brigade Staff Upon Watie's promotion to Brigadier General in the summer of 1864, he was entitled to appoint staff officers to the following positions:

Aides-de-Camp: Capt Lucien B Bell, 1st Lt Saladin Ridge Watie (from pvt, 2nd Co G, 1st Regt)
Assistant Quartermaster: Major Joel B Mayes (from AQM, 2nd Regt)
Assistant Adjutant General: Capt Thomas F Anderson (from Adjt, 1st Regt)
Assistant Inspector General: Major Joseph A Scales (from cdr of Frye's-Scales' Bn)
Surgeon: Major Walter Thompson Adair (from Surg, 1st Regt)
Assistant Surgeon: ?
Assistant Commissary of Subsistence:?
Ordnance Officer: ? ROSTERS:
SOURCE: http://www.thepeoplespaths.net/history/CherConfed.htm
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