Samuel B. CALLAHAN

1834 (age 77)

Eufaula, Alabama, United States, United States

His parentage is unknown. At the age of three he was taken to the Indian Territory, where his father subsequently died of exposure. He was married and had at least six children. He became a wealthy rancher near Okmulgee and owned a large number of slaves. During the 1850s, though not an Indian, Callahan was elected a member of the Creek tribal council and was later elected chief justice of the Indian court system. An ardent states’ rights supporter, he joined the Confederate Army immediately after war was declared. He had been the Creek Nation's delegate to the Washington government and had come to believe that the Confederacy offered more stability to the Creeks. During the war, he organized a company of Creeks, became its captain, and joined Sterling Price’s army in Missouri. In 1862, he was elected to the first Confederate House as the representative of the Creek and Seminole Nations. A nonvoting member, he served well in an advisory capacity to the Committee on Military Affairs. When his term ended, he continued in Richmond as an advisor on Indian affairs. He lost all his property during the war and the Union army forced him and his wife and children to leave the Indian Territory. Callahan settled in Texas and farmed for twenty years. In 1885, he was able to return to the Indian Territory where he rebuilt his ranch. But the “blackleg” epidemic of 1887 destroyed his cattle herd, and he was once more impoverished. He spent the last years of his life as a poor farmer.

Samuel B. CALLAHAN

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CALLAHAN, Samuel B. was born in 1834 in Eufaula, Alabama, United States, United States.

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His parentage is unknown. At the age of three he was taken to the Indian Territory, where his father subsequently died of exposure. He was married and had at least six children.

He became a wealthy rancher near Okmulgee and owned a large number of slaves. During the 1850s, though not an Indian, Callahan was elected a member of the Creek tribal council and was later elected chief justice of the Indian court system. An ardent states’ rights supporter, he joined the Confederate Army immediately after war was declared.

He had been the Creek Nation's delegate to the Washington government and had come to believe that the Confederacy offered more stability to the Creeks. During the war, he organized a company of Creeks, became its captain, and joined Sterling Price’s army in Missouri. In 1862, he was elected to the first Confederate House as the representative of the Creek and Seminole Nations.

A nonvoting member, he served well in an advisory capacity to the Committee on Military Affairs. When his term ended, he continued in Richmond as an advisor on Indian affairs. He lost all his property during the war and the Union army forced him and his wife and children to leave the Indian Territory.

Callahan settled in Texas and farmed for twenty years. In 1885, he was able to return to the Indian Territory where he rebuilt his ranch. But the “blackleg” epidemic of 1887 destroyed his cattle herd, and he was once more impoverished.

He spent the last years of his life as a poor farmer.

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"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.

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Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.

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