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arrived at bellafont and north central alabama they had heard that the government would start out no more groups of Cherokees for the indian territory during the summer and they asked to be allowed to return to their concentration camps in georgia and tenancy until the fall there had been a drought recently and the weather was extremely hot when they were told that they must move on almost three hundred Cherokees grab their meager belongings and escaped into the nearby woods many of the remaining Cherokee prisoners refused to board their transport barges general Nathaniel Smith superintendent of the Cherokee removal was in bellafont he called for local militia to help her the recalcitrance for the of the of the Cherokee removal but sorry on the boat on the seven hundred and twenty-two of the original group of one thousand and seventy-two