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Indian scout, friend of General Andrew Jackson, and a slave owner,
General Thomas S. Woodward was an active participant in the
Muskogee Creek Indian Wars. During a two-year period, 1857-1859, he
submitted letters to J. J. Hooker, editor of the Montgomery,
Alabama Mail correcting errors, misinformation and the romanticized
versions of the history of the period he found in Colonel Albert
James Pickett's History of Alabama. The editor, with his
permission, published those letters periodically, and after
Woodward's death in December 1859, as a collection of
reminiscences. Gifted with a remarkable memory, he wrote letters
filled with first-hand details of the period that ended with the
Indian Removal Act, by which the United States Government, under
President Andrew Jackson, expropriated the remainder of Muskogee
lands in Georgia and Alabama. In his letters he shows himself both
ironic and amused at his own role in those events and does not
apologize for his life. He records his admiration for some of those
on both sides of the conflicts, Creeks, Mixed-blood, and Whites. As
an historian, he was honest and fair, but a man molded by his time
and place.And, as he says in his last letter published during his
lifetime: "Peace to the Good and Brave."
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