Correspondence of the Eastern Division pertaining to Cherokee removal, April-December 1838

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Correspondence of the Eastern Division pertaining to Cherokee removal, April-December 1838

1838

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36237291

"Correspondence of the Eastern Division relating to the removal of the Cherokee from the states of Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama to present-day eastern Oklahoma. Most of the correspondence was received or sent by Bvt. Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott, commanding officer of the Eastern Division, and his immediate staff between April and December 1838 ..."--Page 1. From Records of U.S. Army Continental Commands, 1821-1920, Record Group 393.

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Bushyhead, Jesse, 1804-1844

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Jesse Bushyhead (Cherokee ᎤᎾᏚᏘ, romanized Unaduti; 1804–1844) was a Cherokee religious and political leader, and a Baptist minister. He was born near the present-day town of Cleveland, Tennessee. As a young man, he was ordained a Baptist minister. A member of the John Ross faction of the Cherokee, he was dispatched by Ross in 1837 on a mission to the Seminole. Although Bushyhead opposed the federal policy forcing Indian Removal to west of the Mississippi River, he led a party of about 1,000 peo...