Thank you Josie, This tells so much. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn -----Original Message----- From: josie bass <jbass@digital.net> To: AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com <AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:30 AM Subject: [AMXROADS] Lt. R.H.K. Whiteley - Trail of Tears >General Robert Henry Kirkwood Whiteley was born in Cambridge, MD Apr 15 >1809. He m. Hester Dodson on Nov 30, 1830, and died June 9 1896 in >Baltimore, MD, bur. in Newark, DE. He fathered eleven children. > >Cherokee Connections, by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, c1995: p. 7: "The second >group, numbering about 875, left 13 June. It was under the command of Lt. >R. H. K. Whiteley, with five assistant conductors, two physicians, three >interpreters and a hospital attendant." Refers to the removal of the >Cherokees in 1838 from Alabama, Georgia, NC, and TN to Fort Gibson, >Oklahoma Territory. They departed from Ross's Landing (now Chattanooga, >TN), Gunter's Landing, Jackson Co. AL and Muscle Shoals, AL. R.H.K. >became a Brig. Gen, but was a Lt when he headed up part of the Trail of >Tears. Bvt. BG. Robert H.K. Whitely, Ordnance Dept, U.S.A. > > Lt R.H.K. Whiteley was involved in the Trail of Tears - 1838 >In charge of the second contingent of about 875 Cherokee removed from >Georgia. It consisted of 8 flatboats which left Ross Landing on June 13, >1838 by steamer. >At Decatur they switched to railroad to Tuscumbia, where they transferred >to a single flatboat to Little Rock. From there they travelled by wagon >and foot to Indian Territory. historian Grant Foreman described the rest >of this trip: > >"The weather was extremely hot, a drought had prevailed for months, water >was scarce, suffocating clouds of dust stirred up by oxen and wagons, and >the rough and rocky roads, made the condition of the sick occupants of the >wagons indeed. Three, four, and five deaths occurred each day. Before the >end of the month there were between two and three hundred ill" > >On August 1, Whiteley recorded: "Did not move this day, the party >requiring rest and being more than one half sick; notwithstanding every >effort used, it was impossible to prevent their eating quantities of green >peaches and corn - consequently the flux raged among them and carried off >some days as high as six and seven." > >By the time they reached Indian Territory, only 602 remained. Seventy had >died and the rest simply disappeared along the way. > >sources: Cherokee Sunset: A Nation Betrayed by Samule Carter III, >Doubleday & Co. Inc (1976); War of the Rebellion, US War Dept, Govt >Printing Office (1889); Cherokee Connections by Gromley; and Wally's >Whiteley Whittlin's, P. O. Box 1983, OKC OK 73101. > >He was a career US soldier - stayed with the South. Robert H. K. >Whiteley was a Georgia ordinance officer during the civil War and was >stationed in San Antonio in 1861. > > > > > >___________________________________________________________________ >josiebass@zxmail.com >216 Beach Park Lane >Cape Canaveral, FL 32920-5003 > >Home of the *HARRISON* Repository >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~harrisonrep/ >My Southern Family WWW: >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mysouthernfamily/ > >LINDSAY & HARRISON Surnames & CSA-HISTORY Roots Mail List >GENCONNECT: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/indx/FamAssoc.html > >Data Managed by beautiful daughter Becky Bass Bonner and me, Josephine >Lindsay Bass > > >============================== >Search over 900 million names at Ancestry.com! >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > >