PBA Galleries

9 lines, in ink, on single sheet, 17 lines of docketing on verso. 23x20 cm. (9x8").

Orders relating to the removal of the Cherokee tribe from their homeland in southeast Tennessee, North Carolina, and northern Georgia, as they were relegated to internment camps near present-day Charleston, Tennessee, on the appropriately named trail of tears. Capt. G. J. Drune(?) in instructed to "forthwith proceed to Ross's Landing [Chattanooga, TN] & report to Genl. Smith agent of Cherokee emigration for duty in that service..." The docketing on the reverse reads in part (Capt. G.J. Drune U.S.A. ordered to report for duty to Gen. N. Smith Supt. Cherokee Emigration. Reported on the 17th to Genl. Smith - ordered to take charge of a party of Cherokee Indians..." A poignant reminder one of the tragic episodes of American history.