Bemrose's Medical Case Notes From The Second Seminole War,
2021
University of Central Florida
Bemrose's Medical Case Notes From The Second Seminole War, E. A. Hammond
Florida Historical Quarterly
John Bemrose, a young pharmacist’s apprentice from Lincolnshire, England, began his long sea journey to the United States in August 1831. He disembarked in New York harbor in late September, and shortly afterwards, on November 1, he appeared at an army recruiting post in Philadelphia and accepted a five-year enlistment in the United States army. He was eighteen years old at the time. His slight acquaintance with the field of medicine was sufficient to obtain for him an assignment as hospital steward and surgeon’s aide and an early transfer to garrison duty in St. Augustine. As hostilities between the United …
Military Reconstruction And The Growth Of The Anti-Negro Sentiment In Florida, 1867,
2021
University of Central Florida
Military Reconstruction And The Growth Of The Anti-Negro Sentiment In Florida, 1867, Ralph L. Peek
Florida Historical Quarterly
After months of bitter controversy Congress passed, over the President’s veto, the Reconstruction Acts of March 2 and March 23, 1867. The South was divided into five military districts, each ruled by a major general; Florida, Alabama, and Georgia comprised the third military district which was commanded by Major General John Pope. He in turn appointed Colonel John T. Sprague to head the sub-district of Florida, with headquarters at Tallahassee and later at Jacksonville. Sprague assumed command on April 1, 1867, with ten companies of the 7th United States Infantry and six companies of the 5th United States Artillery, comprising …
Florida Black Codes,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida Black Codes, Joe M. Richardson
Florida Historical Quarterly
After Civil Governments had been reorganized under President Andrew Johnson, the southern states passed laws popularly called “black codes” which frankly differentiated between Negroes and whites. These laws were products of the “baneful heritage” of slavery which rooted in the southern mind false ideas of the Negro, including biological inferiority and innate criminality. The first and among the harshest codes, passed by Mississippi and South Carolina in late 1865, activated a storm of protest from the North. Numerous northern editors warned the South that the sentiment of the country was “firmly fixed” upon the necessity of securing complete protection for …
Graveyard For Britons, West Florida, 1763-1781,
2021
University of Central Florida
Graveyard For Britons, West Florida, 1763-1781, Robert R. Rea
Florida Historical Quarterly
Today it is known as the Miracle Strip, and every spring its long white beaches beckon to sun-starved multitudes who flock to that stretch of coast centering upon Pensacola to the east and Mobile to the west. There lie warmth, relaxation, recreation, and health. Few of today’s sun-worshipers remember that Pensacola was once the swampy, fever-infested capital of British West Florida, and that Mobile was known as a “graveyard for Britons.”
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 47, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
Contributors,
2021
University of Central Florida
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contributors to this issue
Historical News,
2021
University of Central Florida
Historical News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Notice of the annual meeting, activities and events of the society
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Marshall, Labor in the South, by Durward Long; Levine and Lurie (eds.), The American Indian Today, by John K. Mahon; Nolen, The Negro’s Image in the South: The Anatomy of White Supremacy, by Charles C. Alexander; Osborn, Woodrow Wilson: The Early Years, by Gerald E. Critoph; Jackson, The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930, by Burl Noggle; Waring, A Medical History of South Carolina, 1825-1900, by E. Ashby Hammond
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Bennett, Settlement of Florida, by Albert Manucy; Frasca, The Mulberry Tree, by Baynard Kendrick; Bridenbaugh, Vexed and Troubled Englishmen, 1590-1642, by Paul H. Smith; Commager and Giordanetti, Was America A Mistake? An Eighteenth-Century Controversy, by Churchill E. Ward; Caruso, The Mississippi Valley Frontier, by John L. Loos; Zahniser, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Founding Father, by George C. Rogers, Jr.; Northrup, Twelve Years a Slave, by Frank G. Slaughter
The Florida Railroad After The Civil War,
2021
University of Central Florida
The Florida Railroad After The Civil War, Dudley S. Johnson
Florida Historical Quarterly
David Levy Yulee was the most enthusiastic of the early railroad promoters in Florida. On January 8, 1853, he incorporated the Florida Railroad to construct a line from the Atlantic Ocean to a point on the Gulf of Mexico south of the mouth of the Suwannee River. The charter was amended by the legislature in 1855, and the company was authorized to build from Amelia Island on the east coast to Tampa Bay on the Gulf of Mexico with a branch line to Cedar Key. In addition the company was authorized to own and operate steam vessels on Florida’s rivers. …
Apalachicola: The Beginning,
2021
University of Central Florida
Apalachicola: The Beginning, Harry P. Owens
Florida Historical Quarterly
Edmund M. Blunt, editor of The American Pilot, stated in 1822, that there were only three points of destination on the gulf coast of the United States: New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola. Another port, however, Apalachicola, was slowly beginning to grow, and within twenty years it would supersede Pensacola as a cotton port.
Lieutenant Levin M. Powell, U.S.N., Pioneer Of Riverine Warfare,
2021
University of Central Florida
Lieutenant Levin M. Powell, U.S.N., Pioneer Of Riverine Warfare, George E. Buker
Florida Historical Quarterly
Geographically Vietnam is half a world away from Florida. Historically over a century and a quarter separates the present conflict in Southeast Asia from the Second Seminole War. In both of these engagements the United States Navy has conducted similar operations of maintaining combat coastal patrols against guerrilla operations. Today the amphibious river assault forces of the navy wend their passage among the tortuous waterways of the Mekong delta in riverine warfare. l The lineage of such naval operations go back to the Second Seminole War of 1835-1842 in Florida. The conflict erupted in December 1835, when the Indians took …
United States, France, And West Florida, 1803-1807,
2021
University of Central Florida
United States, France, And West Florida, 1803-1807, Clifford L. Egan
Florida Historical Quarterly
On April 30, 1803, in one of the great real estate transactions of history, France sold the United States the Louisiana Territory, an immense land with inexact boundaries. Seldom in history has one nation purchased so much for so little. With the signatures of Robert R. Livingston, James Monroe, and Francois de Marbois, America’s land area was almost doubled. At the same moment all differences between France and the United States seemingly were obliterated. Although President Jefferson had previously spoken of a British alliance since he feared Napoleon as a neighbor, he and his fellow Americans now looked to the …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 47, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
Contributors,
2021
University of Central Florida
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contributors to this issue
The Annual Meeting, May 3-4, 1968,
2021
University of Central Florida
The Annual Meeting, May 3-4, 1968, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Minutes of the Directors meeting
Historical Notes,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Sanborn, Robert E. Lee, Volume I, A Portrait: 1807-1861; Robert E. Lee, Volume II, The Complete Man, 1861-1870, by William Warren Rogers; Morrison, W. J. Cash, Southern Prophet, by Joe M. Richardson; Tindall, The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945, by Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.; Bullock, A History of Negro Education in the South: From 1619 to the Present, by Leedell W. Neyland; Jordan, White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812, by Michael G. Kammen; Kellogg, NAACP: A History of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Vol. I: 1909-1920, by David Chalmers; Newby, …
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Wright, William Augustus Bowles: Director General of the Creek Nation, by Frank L. Owsley, Jr.; Tebeau, Man in the Everglades: 2,000 Years of Human History in the Everglades National Park, by Wyatt Blassingame; Johnson, Rear Admiral John Rodgers, 1812-1882, by Edwin C. Bearss; Ferris and Morris (ed.), Founders and Frontiersmen: Historic Places Commemorating Early Nationhood and the Westward Movement, 1783-1828, by Earle W. Newton; Hemphill (ed.), The Papers of John C. Calhoun, by Thomas P. Govan; Wells, The Slave Ship Wanderer, by George E. Buker
Florida State Grange,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida State Grange, Saunders B. Garwood
Florida Historical Quarterly
Shortly after the Civil War, the United States Department of Agriculture sent one of its agents, Oliver Hudson Kelley, to the South to see what could be done to revive agriculture. Finding a land devastated by war and a people burdened with distrust, debt, and depression, he decided that the “politicians would never restore peace in the country; if it came at all, it must be through fraternity.” He was convinced that the plight of the planter and farmer could not be changed until “the people North and South . . . know each other as members of the same …
