Box Number

5

Folder

5

Item Description

Letter, July 1, 1820, from Headquarters, Nashville, published September 1901, concerning dispatch of troops for ''removal of all intruders found within the Cherokee nation not holding a written permission from the Agent,'' appointing Call to command the expedition and ordering him to arrest ''all white men and their stock of every description, and [deliver] them to the Marshal of the Territory, whence they may be arrested and dealt with as the law directs. . . You will remove the white females of all intruders from the Indian country . . . always remembering that the wife and children of intruders is always there by the order of the husband and fathers, leaving them of the property of the husband a competent support, and taking care that the wife and children are not maltreated by the soldiery . . .''

Box Description

CALL FAMILY PAPERS (continued)

Folder Description

Andrew Jackson letters (photocopies), 1812-1842, 20 pp. (containing 22 letters), as published in The Collector: A Magazine for Autograph and Historical Collectors, between 1901 and 1908. Jackson wrote the letters to Richard K. Call from Washington, D.C. or from Nashville or the Hermitage, Tennessee. They concern personal and family matters as well as public affairs and figures, national politics and government, Florida events, military events, and other matters. The letters were apparently sold to The Collector editor Walter R. Benjamin by Ellen Call Long in 1900 or 1901 (see letters dated July 28, 1900 and October 10, 1900, Benjamin to Long, Box 1, Folder 15, Items 3 and 4). (From U.N.C. #2293-B)