Excerpts from "Noland's Cherokee Diary: A U.S. Soldier's Story from inside the Cherokee Nation" by C. F. M. Noland, edited by Mildred E. Whitmire.
Noland served as a disbursing agent for the U.S. government during the Cherokee removal. In these passages he describes the landscape and waterways of Alabama and Georgia, commenting on the quality of the land and development opportunities; gives his impression of the white settlers ("The peopl...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/1970 |