Wampum

It wasn't until 1967, a year before Bobby Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, that Congress re-designated the 1868 "Decoration Day" as "Memorial Day".

Thomas Plummer enlisted in the North Carolina 3rd Cavalry and survived his service for the Confederate States of America, and after Appomattox Court House, left the South for Indiana. Masten Williams enlisted in the Illinois 87th and survived his service for the United States of America. We looked for his grave in the cemeteries of Cherokee City, Arkansas last year. He and his wife Nancy Cross came there to be enrolled as members of the Cherokee Nation by the Dawes Commissioners.

Nathanial Huff of Norridgewock enlisted in the Maine 21st and died of yellow fever at New Orleans. Leonard, Tilly and Gill Huff enlisted as Indian Guides in the Maine 16th, 19th and 20th, respectively. Leonard was wounded at Chancellorsville and survived his service for the United States of America, mustering out as a Sergent. Tilly and Gill also survived their service for the United States of America, though Tilly was lynched in Norridgewock (Larone), Maine in 1880.

Tomorrow is a good day to reflect upon the four-year War Between the States.

Particularly if you are Cherokee and have a dog in the fight for universal sufferage -- Ross, Wilma, Chad and the Freedman disenfranchisement are all second-order consequences of CNO sufferage being restricted by the state to 19% of the citizenship, and participation limited by expectation of outcomes to under 3% of the citizenship. An actual voting universe equivalent to that created by the 40 shilling freehold of Henry VI in 1430, with a theoretical maximum equivalent to the Reform Act of 1832, which extend the franchise to 40 shilling renters, or 1 in 7 adult males. Both, some what distant from the 19th Amendment of 1920, or the Civil Rights Act of 1964, or the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968, and the Principal Chiefs Act of 1970 which in theory, if not in BIA, extended each of those acts to the CNO.