The soldiers gathered them up, all up, and put them in camps. They hunted them and ran them down until they got all of them. Even before they were loaded in wagons, many of them got sick and died. They were all grief stricken they lost all on earth they had. White men even robbed their dead’s graves to get their jewelry and other little trinkets. They saw to stay was impossible and Cherokees told Gen. Scott they would go without further trouble and the long journey started. They did not all come at once. First one batch and then another. The sick, old, and babies rode . . . on household wagons. The rest rode a horse, if they had one. Most of them walked. Many of them died along the way.

–Elizabeth Watts

How does Elizabeth describe the soldiers and white men?

as sympathizers forced into a duty

as heartless hunters and thieves

as indifferent bystanders