Conflict

The following miscellaneous sources provide details about the prolonged political fallout of the Treaty of New Echota, and the conflict surrounding Bell Detachment survivors as they started new lives in the West. John Adair Bell and other Treaty Party leaders portrayed themselves as the victims, and the National Party led by Chief John Ross as the aggressors. Some of these documents describe the killings of Treaty Party leaders when they arrived in the West. Other documents suggest that J.A. Bell nearly sparked a civil war before fleeing the Cherokee Nation.