I saw the helpless cherokees arrested and dragged from their homes and driven at the bayonet point into the stockades.And in the chill of a drizzling rain on an October morning I saw them loaded like cattle or sheep into six hundred and fourth-five wagons and started towards the west... - private John G burnet 1839.
Which event is described in the passage by Private John G. Burnet in 1839?
1) The forced removal of the Cherokees from their homes
2) The arrest and imprisonment of the Cherokees
3) The transportation of the Cherokees to the west
4) The mistreatment of the Cherokees during their journey