1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles

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1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles
National Color of the 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles
Active	1861–1865
Disbanded	June 23, 1865
Country	Confederate States
Allegiance	Cherokee Nation
Branch	Army
Type	Mounted Rifles
Size	Regiment
Part of	1st Indian Brigade
Nickname(s)	"Cherokee Braves"
Arms	Brown Bess Colt Army Revolver Colt Navy Revolver Gallager Carbine Kentucky Rifle Light Cavalry Saber Maynard Carbine Mississippi Rifle Remington Revolver Sharps Rifle Spencer Rifle Springfield Rifle
Battles	American Civil War Battle of Chusto-Talasah Battle of Pea Ridge First Battle of Cabin Creek Battle of Elk Creek Battle of Mazzard Prairie Second Battle of Cabin Creek
Commanders
Commanding officers	Col. John Drew (1861–62) Col. Stand Watie (1862–64) Col. Robert C. Parks (1864–65)

The 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles (also known as the 1st Arkansas Cherokee Mounted Rifles and the "Cherokee Braves") was a cavalry formation of the Confederate States Army in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War.