Cabin Creek Battlefield

Historical marker location:

Adair, Oklahoma

( Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 69 and East 360th Road, on the right when traveling north on U.S. 69.)

Marker installed: 1995

Emplacements can still be seen where cannons were set to defend the crossing of Cabin Creek. There are many unmarked graves of soldiers who died when General Stand Watie's Confederate troops captured a Federal supply train on September 18, 1864. Earlier, in July 1863, the Confederates were defeated in a small skirmish here.