Thursday, February 25, 2010

Cherokee Removal Correspondence 1834: George Gibson to Cass, Harris, Brown


Correspondence from Gen. George Gibson, Commissary General of Subsistence, U.S. War Department--the agency assigned the task of conducting the Indian Removal until Nov. 1836. This office was responsible for the Removal to the West and for the subsistence of the Indians for a year afterward. Gen. Gibson was Commissary Genl from 1830-1836.

to Hon. Lewis Cass, Secretary of War, 8 July 1834

to Lt. Joseph Harris, Disbursing Agent, 9 July 1834











to William B. Lewis, Auditor, U.S. Treasury Department, 9 July 1834

to Lt. Joseph W. Harris, Disbursing Agent at Cherokee Agency, 10 July 1834


















to Hon. Lewis Cass, Secretary of War, 10 July 1834

to Captain Jacob Brown, 10 July 1834

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