Geronimo
Certainly not a Franelich, but during his time in the barracks at Mt. Vernon, AL., he visited Papa Nick's store (as the story is told my my grandmother).
General
George Crook, who was the commander of the military department of
Arizona in 1871, designed a fair plan for the surrender of Geronimo's
band but it wasn't accepted by his commanding general, General Philip Sheridan.
Sheridan, in 1864, defeated Confederate forces under General Jubal
Early in the Shenandoah Valley and destroyed the economic infrastructure
of the Valley, hastening Lee's surrender.
Sheridan's unconditional surrender terms to the Indians were they would receive
nothing but their lives. General Crook refused this order and
asked to be relieved of his command—and he was.
Much later and a few months before his death in 1890, General George Crook visited the largest group of exiled Chiricahua people, which was in Mt. Vernon, Alabama. There, they crowded around him, his old scouts and his ancient enemies—a few were both—and there was quite a reunion, and this is as good a place as any to declare a final, formal end of the Indian wars. Geronimo wasn't impressed and didn't attend, he was in the schoolroom teaching to the children at the time. (The rise and fall of North American Indians by William Brandon.)
The story about Geronimo visiting Papa Nick's store had to have been told to my grandmother by her father since she wasn't born until 1900. Geronimo visiting Papa Nick's store sure gave us things to talk about and imagine when we were kids. In my childhood days, "Cowboys and Indians' " portrayals were politically correct and movies about the confrontations showed regularly in the movie theaters and on TV. Today no one associates Indians with cowboys or Cavalry but with casinos, so maybe they did win the war after losing every battle.