Today in Chickamauga History - July 20
1761, July 20: Treaty of Long Island-on-the Holston with the Colony of Virginia, ending the war between the colony and the Cherokee.
1826, July 20: ARKANSAS TERRITORIAL PAPERS VOL XX – Page 272 - EDMUND P. GAINES TO THE SECRETARY OF WAR - [NA:WD, SW Lets. Recd., G148:LS 201
Head Quarters, Western Department,
CINCINNATI OHIO, July 20th. 1826.
SIR-By the latest reports which I have received from Colonel Arbuckle, copies of which are duly forwarded to the Adjutant General there is reason to believe that the threatened war between the
Osages, and other tribes adjacent to and within the limits of Arkansaw Territory, cannot be much longer prevented.
The treaty between the Osages and Cherokees and their allies, entered into under the auspices of the United States at Fort Smith, in August 1822, required that if either of the contracting parties should commence hostilities against the other, the party aggrieved were allowed to demand of the other the surrender of the offenders, and were at liberty to appeal to the United States Officers and agents to interpose their authority to obtain and punish the offenders pursuant
to the 8th and 9th Article of that treaty.31
Within the last nine months ten Delawares have been at different times wantonly killed by the Osages. The arrest of the offenders were demanded by the Delawares and Cherokees, but without success. Whereupon the complainants urged Colonel Arbuckle to interpose in their favor, agreeably to the Treaty. He prevailed on them to suspend their measures of retaliation until he could obtain instructions from "their Great Father the President of the United States".