Letter : [Washington, D.C.], to George W. Campbell, [Washington, D.C.], 1817 Jan. 18.

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Letter : [Washington, D.C.], to George W. Campbell, [Washington, D.C.], 1817 Jan. 18.

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January 18, 1817, letter from the secretary of war, George Graham, to the U.S. senator from Tennessee, George W. Campbell, enclosing a copy of his Jan. 13 letter to Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson, which concerned the removal of intruders from lands north of the Tennessee River ceded to the U.S. by the Chickasaw Indians in a Sept. 20, 1816, treaty.

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