Missouri Volunteers At The Battle Of Okeechobee: Christmas Day 1837,
2022
University of Central Florida
Missouri Volunteers At The Battle Of Okeechobee: Christmas Day 1837, John K. Mahon
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Battle of Lake Okeechobee, which occurred on December 25, 1837, was the last large pitched battle of the Second Seminole War. Casualties among United States forces totaled 138, including twenty-six killed. Florida’s native hostiles lost only eleven to fourteen men.1 Nonetheless, army commander Zachary Taylor and his superiors hailed a great victory, and early reports of the “severe and bloody battle” claimed that “the Indians were driven in every direction.“2 The effect on the general’s military and eventual political career was substantial. As noted by a Taylor biographer, “His victory in the only large battle of the conflict went …
Gone But Not Forgotten: Wakulla County's Folk Graveyards,
2022
University of Central Florida
Gone But Not Forgotten: Wakulla County's Folk Graveyards, Sherrie Stokes
Florida Historical Quarterly
Cemeteries sometimes evoke a sense of dread among the living, but these last resting places of the dead often offer important clues to the social and economic backgrounds of those interred in them. Rural southern cemeteries generally are remote and only rarely are sought out by those who study gravestones and burial grounds. Nonetheless, many still are used for burials, and most possess material clues that illustrate gradual and abrupt changes in the traditional and folk funerary customs of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Florida's Confederate Guerrillas: John W. Pearson And The Oklawaha Rangers,
2022
University of Central Florida
Florida's Confederate Guerrillas: John W. Pearson And The Oklawaha Rangers, Zack C. Waters
Florida Historical Quarterly
Secession and the approach of hostilities in 1861 found Florida unprepared for civil war. The state’s militia had disintegrated at the end of the Third Seminole War in 1858, and the attempts of Governor Madison Starke Perry to remedy its disorganized condition proved ineffectual. Perry warned Floridians that the political situation called for military preparedness, but his pleas led to little improvement. An 1859 report indicated that the state possessed only one battery of light artillery and fewer than 1,000 muskets and rifles, including more than 250 antiquated flint and steel muskets.
Title Page,
2022
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 70, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
A Forgotten Sacrifice: Richard Gentry, Missouri Volunteers, And The Battle Of Okeechobee,
2022
University of Central Florida
A Forgotten Sacrifice: Richard Gentry, Missouri Volunteers, And The Battle Of Okeechobee, Phillip Thomas Tucker
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Christmas Day 1837 battle at Lake Okeechobee was a crucial turning point of the Second Seminole War. Almost 30 percent of the American casualties in that engagement were volunteers from Missouri, forty men out of an effective volunteer force of 132. Among the dead was the volunteers’ commanding officer, Colonel Richard Gentry. While the battle’s American commander, Colonel Zachary Taylor, claimed a great victory, the clash was a disaster for the Missourians and, at that, was only the last in a series of difficult trials faced by the luckless regiment.
History News,
2022
University of Central Florida
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Annual Meeting, Society Membershipships, Florida History Research in Progress, Prizes and Awards, Florida History Fair, Gulf Coast History and Humanities Conference, Announcements and Activities, Call for Papers
Florida History In Periodicals,
2022
University of Central Florida
Florida History In Periodicals, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
This selected bibliography includes scholarly articles in the field of Florida history, archaeology, geography, and anthropology published in state, regional, and national periodicals in 1990. Articles, notes, and documents that have appeared in the Florida Historical Quarterly are not included in this listing since they appear in the annual index of each volume. The present listing also includes articles appearing in journals not published on schedule and that were not in the list printed in the July 1990 issue of the Quarterly.
Book Reviews,
2022
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
FLORIDA Cow HUNTER: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BONE MIZELL, by Jim Bob Tinsley, reviewed by Kyle S. VanLandingham; COLUMBIAN CONSEQUENCES, VOLUME 2: ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE SPANISH BORDERLANDS EAST, edited by David Hurst Thomas, reviewed by Paul E. Hoffman; INDIAN-RELIGIOUS RELATIONS IN COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA, edited by Susan E. Ramirez, reviewed by Rebecca Saunders; LETTERS OF DELEGATES TO CONGRESS, 1774-1789, VOLUME 16: SEPTEMBER 1, 1780-FEBRUARY 28, 1781, edited by Paul H. Smith, reviewed by Robert M. Calhoon; FRONTIERS IN CONFLICT: THE OLD SOUTHWEST, 1795-1830, by Thomas D. Clark and John D. W. Guice, reviewed by Gilbert C. …
"Some Prefer The Seminoles": Violence And Disorder Among Soldiers And Settlers In The Second Seminole War, 1835-1842,
2022
University of Central Florida
"Some Prefer The Seminoles": Violence And Disorder Among Soldiers And Settlers In The Second Seminole War, 1835-1842, James M. Denham
Florida Historical Quarterly
On November 26, 1835, Seminole Chief Charley Emaltha was murdered brutally as an act of retaliation. Against the wishes of many native leaders, he had agreed to emigrate west, as required by the earlier treaties of Paynes Landing and Fort Gibson. It soon became apparent that Osceola, a rival leader, and his band of followers were responsible. The news, when it spread, created panic throughout the frontier. At Alachua County’s seat at Newnansville, for example, Judge Robert Raymond Reid hurriedly dismissed the on-going session of the Superior Court of Alachua, Columbia, and Hillsborough counties so that everyone concerned could return …
Review Essay: A River Of Peace? The South Florida Frontier In The Nineteenth Century,
2022
University of Central Florida
Review Essay: A River Of Peace? The South Florida Frontier In The Nineteenth Century, Gary R. Mormino
Florida Historical Quarterly
Napoleon Bonaparte, a mover and shaper of national boundaries, once insisted that Italy was too long to be a country. Might not reasonable people arrive at the same conclusion about another peninsula, namely, that Florida is too long to be a state?
Before The Seminoles: Football At Florida State College, 1902-1904,
2022
University of Central Florida
Before The Seminoles: Football At Florida State College, 1902-1904, Ric A. Kabat
Florida Historical Quarterly
When Coach W. W. Hughes looked out at his football team in the autumn of 1902, he was under no pressure to improve on the previous year’s season. Recently hired to teach Latin at Florida State College (FSC), Professor Hughes had played football at Vanderbilt University and, when he arrived in Tallahassee, had volunteered to coach FSC’s fledgling team. Practicing on the newly graded gridiron west of campus (a renovated cow pasture), the FSC Eleven prepared for their first game against a city team from nearby Bainbridge, Georgia. Hughes, pleased with the team’s progress, anticipated success.
Slavery And The Political Economy Of Gadsden County, Florida: 1823-1861,
2022
University of Central Florida
Slavery And The Political Economy Of Gadsden County, Florida: 1823-1861, Larry E. Rivers
Florida Historical Quarterly
On the eve of secession in January 1861, Gadsden County was one of Florida’s wealthiest political subdivisions. It and its four neighboring counties contained almost 42 percent of the state’s property when measured by value.1 Gadsden’s $6,714,880 in assets constituted somewhat more than 8 percent of the state’s total, even though the county contained less than 1 percent of Florida’s land and 6.7 percent of its population.2 The county’s per capita wealth of $1,684.19 nearly tripled the state average.
Title Page,
2022
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 70, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents
A Daughter Of The Samurai,
2022
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
A Daughter Of The Samurai, Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
Zea E-Books Collection
Born in 1874 the youngest daughter of a samurai and former daimyo—a feudal prince under the Takugawa shogunate—Etsu Inagaki grew up surrounded by ghosts of an aristocratic military lineage. Having fought on the losing side in the wars that installed the Meiji emperor, the Inagaki family was reduced in power, status, and wealth but not in pride or devotion to its traditional roles and customs. Etsu’s upbringing and education were conservative and old-fashioned, guided by the Shinto and Buddhist beliefs her family held. The samurai virtues of honor, stoicism, and sacrifice applied to daughters and wives as well as sons …
Index To Volume Lxix,
2022
University of Central Florida
Index To Volume Lxix, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
History News,
2022
University of Central Florida
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Annual Meeting, National Register of Historic Places, Fort Mose Exhibit, Florida Agricultural Museum, Announcements and Activities
Director's Meeting,
2022
University of Central Florida
Director's Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida Historical Society Minutes of the Board Meeting
Book Reviews,
2022
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
LOS SOBREVIVIENTES DE LA FLORIDA: THE SURVIVORS OF THE DE SOTO EXPEDITION, by Ignacio Avellaneda, reviewed by Marvin T. Smith; CHARLES H. JONES, JOURNALIST AND POLITICIAN OF THE GILDED AGE, by Thomas Graham, reviewed by James B. Crooks; FLORIDA PORTRAIT: A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF FLORIDA, by Jerrell Shofner, reviewed by William M. Goza; THRILLS, CHILLS,& SPILLS - A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF EARLY AVIATION ON THE WORLD'S MOST BIZARRE AIRPORT - THE BEACH AT DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA, by Dick and Yvonne Punnett, reviewed by John P. Ingle, Jr.; FLORIDA LIGHTHOUSES, by Kevin M. McCarthy, GREAT AMERICAN LIGHTHOUSES, by F. Ross Holland, …
Florida Library Acquisitions And Accessions,
2022
University of Central Florida
Florida Library Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The following are recent manuscript acquisitions and accessions as reported by Florida universities, colleges, public libraries, archives, and other institutions. Anyone interested in particular collections should correspond with the organization in question.
The East Big Cypress Case, 1948-1987: Environmental Politics, Law, And Florida Seminole Tribal Sovereignty,
2022
University of Central Florida
The East Big Cypress Case, 1948-1987: Environmental Politics, Law, And Florida Seminole Tribal Sovereignty, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
Congressional enactment of the Seminole Indian Land Claims Settlement Act of 1987 paved the way for resolution of a thirty-nine-year political and legal conflict between the Seminole Indians and the state of Florida over control of one of the most environmentally sensitive regions in the state.1 The area, known as the East Big Cypress Reservation, was a 28,000-acre tract lying in western Broward and Palm Beach counties, and it formed a rectangle measuring approximately six miles north to south and eight miles east to west. On the west, the tract abutted the federal Big Cypress Indian Reservation, which was acquired …
