Post-Revolutionary War to Civil War
Dealing with the North American Native American Indians 1838 Department of Indian Affairs U.S. Senate Bill 264
March 3, 1838-Dated, Official Printed Text of the 25th Congress, Senate Bill 264, Postings for Indian Agents and Reorganizing the Department of Indian Affairs, regarding Agents for the Cherokees; the Creeks; the Choctaws and Sub-Agents for other Native American Indian tribes, Used, Very Good.
This officially printed, 6 page, 1838 25th Congress Senate Bill 264, measuring 13.5" x 8.5," Amending the original 1834 Senate Bill which organized the U.S. Department of Indian Affairs. This new Senate Bill repeals the provision that the Superintendent of Indian Affairs reside at St. Louis, and its outlines the various new Postings for Government Indian Agents and subagents. This Document is in used condition yet complete and intact, with some light age tone and several short fold separations (one on the back page repaired with stamp hinges). There are some notations on the back page not affecting any printed text. Postings for Indian Agents were to be at Fort Brady; Fort Snelling; Council Bluffs; Fort Leavenworth; the Osage River; an agent for the Cherokees; an agent for the Creeks; and an agent for the Choctaws. subagents for other tribes and locations are also listed.
* It is a coincidence and interesting to note that currently there is another (Senate) S.264 Bill, having the same designation as the item offered currently, which is before the 117th Congress (2021-2022), Introduced in Senate (02/04/2021) known as the "Dream Act of 2021".
Fort Snelling is a former military fortification built 1819, and a National Historic Landmark in the U.S. State of Minnesota on the bluffs overlooking the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers.
Fort Brady was a frontier fort established in 1822 in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan to guard against British incursions from Canada. The original location of the fort, known as Old Fort Brady, was along the Saint Mary's River.
The Osage River is a 276-mile-long tributary of the Missouri River in central Missouri in the United States.
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The Second Seminole War (1835"1842) began as a result of the United States unilaterally voiding the Treaty of Moultrie Creek and demanding that all Seminoles relocate to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma pursuant to the Indian Removal Act (1830).
After several ultimatums and the departure of a few Seminole clans per the Treaty of Payne's Landing (1832), hostilities commenced in December 1835 with the Dade Battle and continued for the next several years with a series of engagements throughout the peninsula and extending to the Florida Keys. Though the Seminole fighters were at a tactical and numerical disadvantage, Seminole military leaders effectively used guerrilla warfare to frustrate United States military forces, which eventually numbered over 30,000 Regulars, militiamen and volunteers.
General Thomas Sidney Jesup was sent to Florida to take command of the campaign in 1836. Instead of futilely pursuing parties of Seminole fighters through the territory as previous commanders had done, Jesup changed tactics and engaged in finding, capturing or destroying Seminole homes, livestock, farms, and related supplies, thus starving them out; a strategy which would be duplicated by General W. T. Sherman in his march to the sea during the American Civil War, which helped to shorten that war, and which would eventually contribute to shortening the Second Seminole War. Jesup also authorized the controversial abduction of Seminole leaders Osceola and Micanopy by luring them under a false flag of truce.
General Jesup clearly violated the rules of war, and spent 21 years defending himself over it, "Viewed from the distance of more than a century, it hardly seems worthwhile to try to grace the capture with any other label than treachery."
By the early 1840s, many Seminoles had been killed, and many more were forced by impending starvation to surrender and be removed to Indian Territory. Though there was no official peace treaty, several hundred Seminoles remained in Southwest Florida after active conflict wound down.