Letter : Camp on Grand River, [Indian Territory], to Col. W[illia]m G. Coffin, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Southern Superintendency, 1862 July 19.

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Letter : Camp on Grand River, [Indian Territory], to Col. W[illia]m G. Coffin, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Southern Superintendency, 1862 July 19.

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July 19, 1862, letter from Carruth and Martin to William G. Coffin, superintendent of Indian affairs, Southern Superintendency, reporting on the July 15 arrest at Tahlequah of John Ross and his family by a detachment of the expedition and that action's ramifications for loyal Cherokees there.

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

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In the summer of 1862, E.H. Carruth, Wichita Agency Indian agent, 1862-1864, and H.W. Martin, special Indian agent and later agent at the Sac and Fox Agency, 1862-1867, were appointed to accompany the U.S. Indian Expedition into Confederate-held Indian Territory. One objective of this military mission was to test the union sympathies of Cherokee chief John Ross, who was believed to have allied his tribe with the Confederacy under duress. From the description ...

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Cherokee Chief. From the description of Letter, biography, and publication, 1830-1834. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367389224 Cherokee chief. During the 1813-1814 Creek War, Ross served as adjutant of Gideon Morgan's Cherokee regiment, which fought with Andrew Jackson's militia and regulars against the Creeks at Horseshoe Bend and elsewhere. In a long public career, Ross served on the Cherokee national council (1817-1829, president 1819-1829); as c...

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