Semi-weekly Raleigh Register
Raleigh NC
May 18, 1861
We understand that Col. W. H. Thomas, of Jackson County, in this State, has raised a volunteer corps of Cherokee Indians, numbering 200 very efficient men. This “tribe,” consisting of some 1500, are determined not to be mere idle spectators in this war of “Booty and Beauty” which is to be waged against the South. These Indians, it is well known, always fight in their own way. They are most capital riflemen, and not entirely unacquainted with the uses of the “knife.” So we advise the Northern barbarians, with A. Blinkun at their head, to look well to their “scalps” when they hear the war-whoop of the “Cherokees.”