Reply to Caleb Smith re: meeting with John Ross, Chief of Cherokee - American History 1493-1945

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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC01233.01
From Archive Folder	Four documents relating to the Cherokee and the American Civil War
Title	Reply to Caleb Smith re: meeting with John Ross, Chief of Cherokee
Date	1862/09/11
Author	Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
Document Type	Correspondence
Content Description	Endorsement on blank leaf of Caleb Smith's letter. Smith's letter was written on Interior Department Stationery, agreeing to meet with Cherokee chief Ross. Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. V 1861 - 1862, p. 415 - 416.
Subjects	American Indian History President Government and Civics Diplomacy Treaty
People	Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
Place written	Washington, D.C.
Theme	The American Civil War; The Presidency; Government & Politics; Native Americans
Sub-collection	Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945
Transcript	Show/hide Department Of the Interior, Washington, Sept. 11, 1862 To the President Sir John Ross Chief of the Cherokee Indians desires to see you to explain the condition of matters in the Indian country. I hope it will suit your convenience to afford him an interview. Very respy, Caleb B. Smith [endorsement] I will see Mr. Ross at 9. A.M. to-morrow, if he calls. A. Lincoln Sept. 11, 1862.