Dear Cousins: >From THAT THEY LIVE: Worth Ray tells of James Morrow being a Captain in the Seminole Campaign (Tennessee Cousins, p. 267) commanding a company of East Tennessee Volunteers. Bill Morrow found that he served first from June 10, 1836 to July 7, 1837. He was Captain of a Company in the lst Regiment (Smith's) of Tennessee Mounted Volunteers. Only July 11, 1837, he mustered in as Captain in Lindsey's Regiment and served until July 12, 1838. In Alabama State Papers (American State Paper, Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, for the Second Session of the Twenty-fourth, the First and Second Sessions of the Affairs, Washington' Published by Gales and Seaton, 1861.) A copy of these proceedings is in my possession. The book in the Fort Worth Public Library was in the closed shelves and deteriorated a great deal as I made a copy of it. It relates that in 1836-7, during the Cherokee removal in Jackson, Alabama in which James Morrow participated under the order of General John E. Wool, they removed a white man who had taken over the home of an Indian, John Gunter, Sr. Mr. Gunter had acquired the rights of a Cherokee by having married a native. They found that to remove the white man was against civil law, but upheld by Federal law. There was a court marshal trial held by the state of Alabama. A record of this trial which gave the testimony of James Morrow reveals him to be a very intelligent and kind man; reasonable, with empathy toward the oppressed. He states that while working under the command of General Wool he investigated all complaints made by Cherokees against whites. He states that a portion of the populations of Alabama was very respectable, but a majority were unworthy; robbing and plundering the Indians, and oppressing them in many ways. In this case, Mr. Gunter made "Indian improvements" on the land and the land was given back to him. Those testifying with Captain Morrow stated their thanks to him for the way the case was handled. The court marshal of General Wool was not granted, his officers were vindicated, and the President of the United States, Andrew Jackson, commended them on the handling of this affair. In the war record of James Morrow on May 17, 1837, under General Wool, James is a Captain of the Volunteer Company, serving in the Cherokee Nation. Court met at 10 a. m., September 4, 1837, at Knoxville, Tennessee. When Dr. William H. Morrow was very ill and a couple of days before his operation for kidney stones in 1937 in San Antonio, Texas, his son, Bill, asked him who his grandfather was, etc. He remarked that his grandfather was a Captain in the Army that moved the Cherokees westward. (Letter from William H. Morrow, dated June 3, 1975). ( Jerry Kelly who put together the family history That They Live ) I read somewhere that James Morrow and possibly General Wool went home after this. They had had enough of the military and the removal of the Indians. James Morrow's of McNairy TN (1830, 1840, 1850 census) connection to the Roach line--his daughter Eliza (Elizabeth Jane) married William Thadius Roach. And so here we are... == Cease to lament for that thou canst not help, And study help for that which thou lament'st. Time is the nurse and breeder of ALL GOOD. Henry VI, Part III _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com