Over the weekend I helped my parents and church clean out an old warehouse of bibles, doctrines, psychology books, history books, and books in general. After loading four truck loads full I came across a small book called The Story of the Cherokee People by Tom B-Underwood. It is a small story book about the beginning and end of the Cherokee people and stories of the Trail of Tears. I sat down and read the entire book.
In the middle of book there is a letter written by Private John G. Burnett, Captain Abraham McClellan Company, 2nd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, Mounted Infantry, Cherokee Indian Removal 1839-39. He wrote a "birthday" letter on his 80th birthday to tell a promised story to his family and grand children. He says all through the story of how he wants people to know the truth. Reading this story made me see Andrew Jackson a whole different way. This really upset me because he was my favorite president besides John F. Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy, who was just a candidate. I want everybody to read this letter/story. I could not put it down. Not only did John G. Burnett write a letter about the removal of the Indians, but he was born and raised at King Iron Works in Sullivan County. Which made the letter even more interesting.
Reading this letter strengthened my pursuit to research more information on forgotten history and secrets. History secrets are quite intriguing.
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