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- Letter from Colonel Charles McLemore of the 76th Regiment in Lafayette, Alabama, to Governor Clement C. Clay.
- 1836 May 23
- In the letter McLemore explains that a number of Indians in the area have been "manafesting warlike symptoms"; in response, he has called out the militia and constructed two forts to protect the county. He describes recent events but reports that...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Copy of a letter from Governor Clement C. Clay in Montgomery, Alabama, to the officer commanding the Georgia militia at Columbus.
- 1836 May 28
- In the letter Clay explains "that hostilities have been commenced, by the Creek Indians, upon the inhabitants of Alabama, as well as those of Georgia." He then explains local troop preparations and proposed tactics for winning the fight, and he...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Governor Clement C. Clay in Montgomery, Alabama, to Secretary of War Lewis Cass.
- 1836 June 3
- In the letter Clay discusses the progress of the Creek War in Alabama, describing campaigns, troop movements, and expenses. He mentions recent discussions with Opothleyaholo ("Hopothle Yoholo"), a friendly Creek chief, regarding the cause of the...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Governor Clement C. Clay in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to Major General Thomas S. Jesup in Tampa Bay, Florida.
- 1837 March 30
- In the letter Clay discusses the recent Creek War in Alabama and describes current efforts to permanently remove Indians from the state. (Clay believed that "nothing would restore safety and tranquility, to the inhabitants, but the entire removal...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Copy of a letter from Thomas J. Jessup in Nashville, Tennessee, to Andrew Jackson.
- 1845 May 30
- Jessup has been accused of "having by a course of intrigue obtained the command of the army in the Creek War in 1836; and of having, in the same way, caused the removal of General Scott from the command of that army." In the letter he asks Jackson...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- "Losses--Late War with Creek Indians, Alabama."
- 1838
- Report issued by the Committee of Claims of the United States House of Representatives, in response to a request made by the Alabama legislature after the recent Creek War: "...many of the citizens of Alabama...have been subjected to great...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from George Goldthwaite in camp near Tuskegee, Alabama, to John A. Campbell in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1836 May 23
- Campbell served as Governor Clement C. Clay's aide-de-camp during the Second Creek War. In the letter he discusses the progress of the war, reporting that some of the Creek allies "have all quit and gone home, refusing to fight alone the battles of...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from the chiefs and warriors of several Creek Indian towns, to Governor Clement C. Clay.
- 1836 May 30
- The letter gives the Indians' response to the proclamation Clay issued to the Creek chiefs. They express disappointment at the behavior of the warring Indians but then describe their own amiable relations with white settlers, mentioning, however,...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from John J. Walker an emigrating agent for the Creek Indians in Tuskegee, Alabama, to Governor Clement C. Clay.
- 1836 June 2
- In the letter Walker argues that the removal of the Creek Indians has been delayed by the chief Hopoethleyahola (Opothleyaholo) and not by the merchants who have been contracted to provide them with supplies for their journey: "we have agents...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Governor Clement C. Clay in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, calling for two thousand volunteers "to be placed immediately in the service of the United States" to defend the country against "Indian hostilities" or invasions.
- 1836 June 21
- In the letter Clay appeals to patriotism by stressing Alabama's involvement in the current Indian conflict, but he points out that service will probably not be required after the Creek War ends: "Regarding our locality and the numerous Indian...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Secretary of War J. R. Poinsett to Governor Clement C. Clay in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
- 1837 June 13
- In the letter Poinsett maintains the importance of Indian removal in Alabama, and he assures Clay that the War Department "will leave no necessary means untried, to effect so important an object." In the meantime, "the inhabitants of that section...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Testimony and deposition from the treason trial of William Earles.
- 1837
- Earles pleads not guilty to the charge of treason against the state of Alabama; he was indicted because of his close association with the Creek Indians in the eastern part of the state. Six witnesses provide statements about his acquaintance with...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Governor Clement C. Clay in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to Colonel John Currie.
- 1837 February 21
- In the letter Clay responds to a message he has just received from Currie, which was sent almost two months before ("What can have been the cause of this delay, I am wholly unable to explain"). He explains that he has called several companies of...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from O. K. Freeman in Tuskegee, Alabama, to Governor Clement C. Clay in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
- 1836 March 5
- After learning from an acquaintance that the "indians intended to go to war, when the trees put out their leaves," Freeman traveled through the Creek nation in Alabama to observe their behavior. In the letter he reports activities among the Indians...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from a committee of white citizens in Wetumpka, Alabama, to Governor Clement C. Clay in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
- 1836 May 13
- The committee was appointed to investigate reports of recent Indian hostilities near Tallassee. In the letter the men share their findings with the governor and express their belief that "we shall have a regular Indian war": "Hitherto we believed...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Handwritten copy of a letter from Major General Thomas S. Jesup in Washington, D.C., to Governor Clement C. Clay in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
- 1836 May 19
- In the letter Jesup reports that he will be in command of the soldiers enforcing the Creek Indian removal in Alabama. The president has authorized him to request additional volunteers or militia from the state, so he asks Clay to organize troops to...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Governor Clement C. Clay in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to Secretary of War J. R. Poinsett in Washington, D.C.
- 1837 April 17
- In the letter Clay discusses Creek Indians who have escaped from removal camps and are hiding in their old territory: "It is...impossible to ascertain satisfactorily how many of these deluded savages, are still lurking within our limits, but I am...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection