Today in Chickamauga History - July 10
1761, July 10: Journal of Lieutenant Colonel James Grant Commanding an Expedition Against the Cherokee Indians June-July 1761, documents the Genocide and Atrocities against the Lower Town Cherokee.
1839, July 10: The Cherokee Registry” Emigration from Georgia – “Know all men by these presents, that, in order to stop the further effusion of blood, to calm the present unhappy excitement, and to restore peace and harmony and confidence in the community, we, the people of the eastern and western Cherokees in national convention assembled, in our name, and by the authority and the exercise of our plenary powers, do ordain and decree, and by these presents it is ordained and decreed accordingly, that a full, free pardon and amnesty be, and is hereby granted to all persons, citizens of the eastern and western Cherokee (Chickamauga) nation, who may be chargeable with the act of murder or homicide, committed on the person of any Cherokee previously to the passage of this decree, whether the same may have been committed with-in the limits of the eastern or western Cherokee (Chickamauga) country or elsewhere. And by the authority aforesaid, we do further ordain and decree, that all persons so chargeable are, and by these presents are declared to be, fully exempted, re-leased, and discharged from all liability to prosecution, punishment, or disabilities of any kind whatever, on the aforesaid account; and that they be re-stored to the confidence and favor of the community, and to the enjoyment and protection, and benefits of the laws, to all intents and purposes, as if the act or acts for which they stand chargeable had not been committed.
Given under our hands, at Illinois Camp Ground, this l0th day of July 1839. By order of the national convention.’ - https://cherokeeregistry.com/the-emigration-from-georgia-trail-of-tears/