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Casey, John Charles, 1807-1856

 Person

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

John Charles Casey Collection, 1825-1859

 Collection
Identifier: MC-1964-34
Scope and Contents

Army officer and special agent to the Seminole Indians at the agency on the banks of the Caloosahatchee River, Fla. Personal and official correspondence, limitary orders, a Muskogee phrase book, notes by Casey in a scrapbook of newspaper clippings of the 1850s, and book (1850-1853) of IOndian Agency affairs including council notes, lists of Seminoles, and maps. The letters relate to the removal of the Indians, delegations from Arkansas, and the “Blake episode.”

Dates: 1825 - 1859