Anticipation Grows

In early 1838, as the forced removal approached, Lewis Ross wrote from the Cherokee Agency at Charleston, Tennessee, to his brother, Principal Chief John Ross, expressing intense anxiety and unease. In January he said that the most intense anxiety of mind prevailed throughout the nation, and in April he wrote that the times were gloomy, that black clouds were gathering fast around them, and that nothing but destruction stared them in the face, while their fate was unknown.

Charleston, Tennessee · United States