Today in Chickamauga History - June 15
1780, June 15: Letter from Thomas Jefferson to William Preston - To the counties of Washington and Montgomery we must allot the operations against the southern indians. We are informed that the Carolinians are meditating an attack on the Chickamogges and will want aid. I am therefore to require that one hundred and fifty militia from Washington and one hundred from Montgomery be embodied in such time and manner as may cooperate with the Carolinians and strike a decisive and memorable blow against those hostile towns, taking great care that no injury be done to the friendly part of the nation. - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-03-02-0521
1789, June 15: Delay in Cherokee Arrival, Delayed Treaty Talks - Engagement with Creeks prompted commissioners to leave French [broad]River without settling treaty with Cherokees. Bad white men said words against Cherokee nation due to their absence at meeting location. - https://wardepartmentpapers.org/s/home/item/39897
1793, June 15: Letter from Henry Know to Tobias Lear – 1. Southwest Territory governor William Blount wrote Knox on 9 May that “the enclosed copies of letters and orders to General [James] Robertson, and of my order to Major [Hugh] Beard, will fully inform you of the steps I have taken to relieve the district of Mero from the invasion of the Creeks. … The Cherokees appear generally disposed for peace, but they have not yet determined whether they will accept the invitation of the President to visit him at Philadelphia.” Blount reported that two parties of Creeks had passed the Lower Cherokee village of Lookout Mountain in Georgia “between the 25th and 30th, for war against Cumberland, one of twenty-five the other of eighteen, and that, on the 26th, a party returned from Cumberland, with hair.” - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-13-02-0062
1793, June 15: Living in Gores of Blood - Double-head demands an explanation for the recent attack on the Cherokees that resulted in nine deaths. - http://wardepartmentpapers.org/s/home/item/44892
1793, June 15: Living in Gores of Blood - Double-head demands an explanation for the recent attack on the Cherokees that resulted in nine deaths. – Notable Location: Lower Towns - I am still among my people, living in gores of blood. When is the day I shall get a full answer from you? Be strong and don't be afraid but get satisfaction for me. - https://wardepartmentpapers.org/s/home/item/44892
1799, June 15: Requests Return of Stolen Horses - Asked Mr. Hilterbrand, who resides in the Cherokee Nation, to request stolen horses to prevent trouble, that there may be peace with White neighbors. If the horses aren't returned, they will stop delivering supplies to the Indians. – Note: recipient note: The recipents are the Chiefs and Warriors of the Cherokee Nation. - https://wardepartmentpapers.org/s/home/item/68752
1839, June 15: The Cherokee Registry” Emigration from Georgia – Letter Written to the Chiefs of the Western Cherokees (Chickamauga) – Gentlemen: Your proceedings of the 13th instant have been submitted before our Western (Chickamauga) brethren, as will be seen from the accompanying copy of a letter which we addressed to them; and the result of their deliberation on the subject will be found in the copy of a letter received front them, bearing date of the 14th instant” herewith annexed.
You will no doubt feel the regret and surprise that we do, in relation to the singular views entertained and expressed by the signers of this letter. We deem it our duty to lay before you, at this time, the joint resolutions which were adopted by you, and approved by the people east of the Mississippi on the 21st of July and 1st of August 1838; and you, who are the immediate representative of the people, and as guardians of their rights, understanding their interests, and knowing their sentiments, it is your bounden duty to obey their will when clearly and publicly expressed by themselves; therefore, should we fail in our representative capacity to conic to any satisfactory or definite understanding with those who represent our brethren, in the adoption of measures for reuniting the people under sonic provisional arrangements for the establishing a new government, it will become your duty to consult the feelings and sentiments of the people, and to take steps for ascertaining their will in reference to this important subject.
Respectfully submitted,
John Ross,
George Lowry.
Messrs. Rd. Taylor, President Committee and
Going Snake, Speaker of Council.”‘
The two councils still met at Takatoka, although the meeting places were quite a distance apart and the deliberations of each were absolutely distinct from the other. Upon receiving the above given communication from the Western Cherokee council through Chiefs Ross and Lowry the Eastern Cherokee council answered with: - https://cherokeeregistry.com/the-emigration-from-georgia-trail-of-tears/
1864, June 15: Ambush of the Steamboat - The ambush of the steamboat J.R. WILLIAMS was a military engagement during the American Civil War. It took place on June 15, 1864, on the Arkansas River in the Choctaw Nation (Indian Territory) which became encompassed by the State of Oklahoma. It is popularly termed the "only naval battle" in that landlocked state. On July 17, 1864, Watie reported the results of the encounter to his superior, General Cooper. He noted that he was sending six prisoners from the steamboat. He also stated that four of the Union men were killed.
The raid did not have an official military name; many years later, a publication by the Oklahoma Civil War Sesquicentennial referred to it as the "Pleasant Bluff Action.