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• 1850 Federal Census, Cherokee County, Alabama, 11 July, District 27, page ?, Hse/Fam #850
  Jephtha Green 38 M Agriculture b SC  (b abt 1810)
  Jemima Green 32 F b SC  (b abt 1818)
  Wm Green 12 F b Alabama (b abt 1838)
  
  In 1860, William is living with his wife and one child in a cluster of households of his family.  His widowed mother and grandmother are living a couple of houses away next to each other.
  
  1860 Federal Census, Cherokee County, Alabama, 15 July, District 2, PO Center, page 70, Hse/Fam #499
  William Green 21 M Farmer $265 Personal Estate born Alabama [b abt 1839]
  Sarah Green 24 F born Georgia [b abt 1836]
  Lydia Green 3 F born Alabama [b abt 1857]
  Nancy Bone 23 F born Alabama [b abt 1837]
  
  Nancy Bone may be a sister of Sarah.
  
  William served in the Cherokee Guards of Alabama, in the forces of the Confederate States of America.  I found his name in the roll of the Guards, but found no other details of his service or deployment in the records.  He is on the list with his uncle, Monterville M Israel and Monterville's neighbor Geroge Taylor.
  
  Roll of the Cherokee (Alabama) Guards, US Civil War
  M M Israel 1st Lieut
  William Green 1st Corpl
  George Taylor Drummer
  
  The Eastern Cherokee as well as a compnent o the Western Cherokees were allied with the Confederacy because of their longtime grievances with the US government. They blamed the US blamed the federal government and former US President Andrew Jackson for the Trail of Tears.
  
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  Cherokee in the American Civil War
  
  The Cherokee in the American Civil War were active in the Trans-Mississippi and Western Theaters.  In the east, Confederate Cherokees led by William Holland Thomas hindered Union forces trying to use the Appalachian mountain passes of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.
  
  Out west, Confederate Cherokee Stand Watie led primarily Native Confederate forces in the Indian Territory, in what is now the state of Oklahoma.  The Cherokee partnered with the Confederacy in order to get funds, as well as ultimately full recognition as a sovereign, independent state.
  
  Before Indian Removal, the Cherokee Nation was centered in and around the Blue Ridge Mountains-southwestern North Carolina, southeastern Tennessee, western South Carolina and northeastern Georgia.  The Cherokee attempted to address their grievances by taking their problems to the American Federal judicial system.
  
  In 1830, a delegation led by Chief John Ross defended Cherokee rights before the U.S. Supreme Court in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia.  The Indian cases set a precedent in Indian Country but was in vain as the Cherokee Nation was set upon the Trail of Tears. After the removals, the Cherokee Nation was found west of the Mississippi River, and some Cherokee were still found in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
  
  The Cherokee blamed the federal government and former United States President Andrew Jackson for the Trail of Tears.  They also had adopted "Southern ways" before their removal from their Appalachia home.  A few of them had owned slaves.
  
  Therefore, the western Cherokee already disliked the north when in 1860 William Seward, campaigning on behalf of Abraham Lincoln, said that Lincoln would open the Indian Territory for white settlement.
  
  --  Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_in_the_American_Civil_War
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Sources

• 1. 1850 Federal Census, Cherokee County, Alabama
  • 11 July, District 27, page ?, Hse/Fam #850
• 2. 1860 Federal Census, Cherokee County, Alabama
  • 15 July, District 2, PO Center, page 70, Hse/Fam #499
• 3. Roll of the Cherokee (Alabama) Guards, US Civil War