trusted friend, that if
they would surrender Charley and his party for punishment, the rest
would he allowed to remain until their ease could lie adjusted by the
government. On hearing of the proposition, Charley voluntarily
came in with his sons, offering himself as a sacrifice for his people. By
command of General Scott, Charley, his brother, and the two elder
-oils were -hot near the mouth of Tuckasegee,a detachment of Chero-
kee prisoners being compelled to do the shooting in order to impress
upon the Indians the fact of their utter helplessness. From those
fugitives thus permitted to remain origina ted the present eastern
band oft Iherokee.'
When nearly seventeen thousand Cherokee had thus been gathered
into the various stockades the work of removal began. Early in June
several parties, aggregating about five thousand persons, were brought
down by the troopsto the old agency, on Hiwassee, at the present
Calhoun. Tennessee, and to Ros-"s landing (now Chattanooga), and
Gunter's Landing (now Guntersville, Alabama), lower down on the
Tennessee, where they were put upon steamers and transported down
the Tennessee and Ohio to the farther side of the Mississippi, when
the journey was continued by land to Indian Territory. This removal.
1 The notes on the Cherokee round-up and Removal are almost entirely from author's information
asfumishedby actors in the events, both Cherokee and white, among whom may benamed the
ne] W. It. Thomas; the late Colonel /.. A. Zile, of Atlanta, of the Georgia volunteers; the
Bryson, of Dlllsboro, North Carolina, a ho a volunteer; James l». Wafford, of ■
Cherokee Nation, who commanded oi i the emigrant detachments; and old [ndians, both east and
west, who remembered tin-