Letter to George W. Campbell, 1817
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- 1817-01-18
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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. Graham instructed Jackson to offer military force if called upon by the state and also noted that Cherokee...
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United States. War Department
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- Newberry Library
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- Political science
Armed Forces
Indian reservations
Land tenure
Squatters
Law
Graham, George, 1770-1830
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
Chickasaw
Cherokee - Type
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- Correspondence
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- United States. War Department. Letter to George W. Campbell, 1817. 1817-01-18. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nby_eeayer/id/23479. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
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- United States. War Department, (1817-01-18) Letter to George W. Campbell, 1817. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nby_eeayer/id/23479
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- United States. War Department. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nby_eeayer/id/23479>.