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Letters Of The Invaders Of East Florida, 1812, Rembert W. Patrick Mar 2021

Letters Of The Invaders Of East Florida, 1812, Rembert W. Patrick

Florida Historical Quarterly

In September, 1812, a small detachment of the United States Army, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas A. Smith, was camped near Moosa Old Fort. Not more than five hundred yards from the American forces was the unkempt and open quarters of a small band of men who called themselves the “Patriots of East Florida." Just across the San Sebastian river from these camps lay the town of St. Augustine with its formidable fort, Castillo de San Marcos, manned by Spanish regulars and colored militia from the Spanish West Indian possessions.

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Francis P. Fleming In The War For Southern Independence: Letters From The Front, Edward C. Williamson Mar 2021

Francis P. Fleming In The War For Southern Independence: Letters From The Front, Edward C. Williamson

Florida Historical Quarterly

The writer of these letters, Francis P. Fleming (governor of Florida 1889-1893), was born at Panama, Duval county, Sept. 28, 1841; he enlisted as a private, July 13, 1861, in the St. Augustine Rifles which later became Company H., 2nd Florida Infantry Regiment of the famous Florida Brigade commanded by General E. A. Perry. The 2nd Florida served as part of the Army of Virginia. The letters are a part of the Fleming Papers in the Florida Historical Society library at St. Augustine, recently presented to the Society by Mrs. Hester Fleming Williams.

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The Political Activity Of The Freedmen’S Bureau In Florida, George R. Bentley Mar 2021

The Political Activity Of The Freedmen’S Bureau In Florida, George R. Bentley

Florida Historical Quarterly

In its first five months the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands was completely inactive in Florida. An assistant commissioner - that is, state head of the Bureau - was appointed early enough, but he had charge also of Georgia and South Carolina, and he limited both his interests and his activities to the Palmetto State. He was General Rufus Saxton, an ardent abolitionist and a long-time protege of Salmon P. Chase. During most of the war he had been in charge of the Sea Islands Experiment with free Negro labor. In the early months of the Freedmen’s Bureau …

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A Connecticut Yankee After Olustee: Letters From The Front, Vaughn D. Bornet Mar 2021

A Connecticut Yankee After Olustee: Letters From The Front, Vaughn D. Bornet

Florida Historical Quarterly

The first half of this series of letters by Private Milton M. Woodford, Seventh Connecticut Volunteers, USA, appeared in the last issue of this Quarterly under the title “A Connecticut Yankee Fights at Olustee.”

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The Founder Of The Seminole Nation, Kenneth W. Porter Mar 2021

The Founder Of The Seminole Nation, Kenneth W. Porter

Florida Historical Quarterly

For nearly a century the generally accepted account of the origin of the Seminole has been “that the first group of Seminoles came into Florida in 1750, under a chief named Secoffee,” to quote Dr. John R. Swanton, chief contemporary authority on their origins and early history, whose source is the anthropologist Daniel G. Brinton, although Dr. Swanton states that he does not know Brinton’s authority.

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Major-General John Campbell In British West Florida, George C. Osborn Mar 2021

Major-General John Campbell In British West Florida, George C. Osborn

Florida Historical Quarterly

Late in the autumn of 1778 Brigadier-General John Campbell received a communication from Lord George Germain to proceed from the colony of New York to Pensacola, Province of West Florida. In this imperial province, which was bounded on the west by the Mississippi river, Lake Ponchartrain and the Iberville river, on the south by the Gulf of Mexico, on the east by the Apalachicola river and on the north by the thirty-first parallel but later by a line drawn eastward from the mouth of the Yazoo river, General Campbell was to take command of His Majesty’s troops. That the newly …

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A Connecticut Yankee Fights At Olustee: Letters From The Front, Vaughn D. Bornet Mar 2021

A Connecticut Yankee Fights At Olustee: Letters From The Front, Vaughn D. Bornet

Florida Historical Quarterly

Olustee was the most important battle of the War for Southern Independence in Florida. While the Union army under Brigadier General Truman Seymour was not “completely defeated, with . . . utter rout," it was a severe setback in the plan of the administration for separating Florida from the Confederacy. If the effort had been successful, the political and economic results would have been serious for the South.

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William Dunnington Bloxham: The Years To The Governorship, Ruby Leach Carson Mar 2021

William Dunnington Bloxham: The Years To The Governorship, Ruby Leach Carson

Florida Historical Quarterly

If any contemporaries of William D. Bloxham (1835-1911) made any inquiries concerning the family background of Florida’s two-term governor, they left no record of his ancestry. As the son of a Leon county planter, born and reared in the heart of the political scene in Florida, his presence required no explanation. The War for Southern Independence, and then Reconstruction, of epic importance, engrossed men’s thoughts. Even Bloxham’s activity in statecraft was sufficiently important and picturesque to focus journalistic attention upon the man’s achievements almost to the exclusion of his earlier background.

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Carpetbag Imperialism In Florida 1862-1868, George Winston Smith Mar 2021

Carpetbag Imperialism In Florida 1862-1868, George Winston Smith

Florida Historical Quarterly

The great Civil War battlefields were far from Florida. Compared with the Wilderness campaign, the bloody slaughter of Pittsburg Landing or other major conflicts, even Olustee was a minor battle on the margin of the war. Yet in addition to keeping Florida in the Confederacy, it and other lesser encounters revealed social forces which were destined to alter the fabric of Florida’s society, and radically influence the future, of all the South. For with the occupying forces of the Union army came political and economic adventurers, the successors of a few earlier Yankee pioneers in Florida, and the predecessors of …

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Early Education In Tallahassee And The West Florida Seminary, Now Florida State University, Part Ii, William G. Dodd Mar 2021

Early Education In Tallahassee And The West Florida Seminary, Now Florida State University, Part Ii, William G. Dodd

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the year 1850, Tallahassee, through its city government, took the first faltering steps which led later in the decade to the organization of a stable school system. Before that year, as was told in Part I of this article, parents had depended for the education of their children on private schools and on two corporate institutions, Leon Academy and Leon Female Academy. The former, constantly in financial straits, was barely kept alive through the years from 1827 to 1840. The Female Academy, begun in 1844, continued as an independent school until 1858. Thus the story of boys’ education before …

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Dr. Henry Perrine, Tropical Plant Enthusiast, Nelson Klose Mar 2021

Dr. Henry Perrine, Tropical Plant Enthusiast, Nelson Klose

Florida Historical Quarterly

After much research on the subject, this writer believes that no person worked with more devotion and energy for the introduction of tropical agricultural plants into the United States in the second quarter of the nineteenth century than did Dr. Henry Perrine. His was the foremost pioneering in agriculture for the development of the newly-acquired Territory of Florida. Perrine’s work came when a need was felt for new crops to diversify and bolster the agriculture of the South before effective assistance was given the states and before the Federal Congress had bureaucratized this work in 1839 with its first appropriation …

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Taylor County History And Civil War Deserters, W. T. Cash Mar 2021

Taylor County History And Civil War Deserters, W. T. Cash

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Florida seceded from the Union, Taylor county was four years old, it having been created from Madison county on December 23, 1856. As a functioning political unit its age was at least six months less, for the members of its first board of county commissioners were not qualified until March 27, 1857, and its first judge of probate, one of whose duties was to preside at board meetings, was not commissioned until July 4, following.

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Robert E. Lee In Florida, Karl A. Bickel Mar 2021

Robert E. Lee In Florida, Karl A. Bickel

Florida Historical Quarterly

The career of General Robert E. Lee is so overwhelmingly associated with the valleys of Virginia and the great and decisive battles of the Civil War that his very real personal interest in Florida and the fact that as one of the commission of United States Army officers in 1849 he made a detailed and personal examination of the entire coast line of Florida from Pensacola to Jacksonville and Fernandina, has been largely obscured. During this tour of inspection as secretary of the commission, he recorded the results of the examination of every bay, river mouth of any importance, or …

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Early Education In Tallahassee And The West Florida Seminary Now Florida State University, Part I, William G. Dodd Mar 2021

Early Education In Tallahassee And The West Florida Seminary Now Florida State University, Part I, William G. Dodd

Florida Historical Quarterly

The school problems of early Tallahassee, after a long process of trial and error, were finally solved by the establishment, on January 1, 1857, of the West Florida Seminary. Though the Seminary was nominally a State institution, actually for many years nearly all of its students were from Tallahassee and vicinity, and it was to all intents and purposes a Tallahassee school. With its location in the town, citizens were at last assured of a permanent means of educating their sons, and a little later, their daughters also. Until this fortunate event, Tallahassee, like the other towns of the Territory …

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Governor Cespedes And The Religious Problem In East Florida, 1786-1787, Richard K. Murdoch Mar 2021

Governor Cespedes And The Religious Problem In East Florida, 1786-1787, Richard K. Murdoch

Florida Historical Quarterly

Hardly a year had elapsed after the retrocession of East Florida to Spanish control in 1783, when one disturbing fact became evident to the authorities in St. Augustine and Havana. The desired increase in the Spanish population of the province was not materializing, and there were no indications of an imminent influx of settlers. This condition was due largely to the absence of any Spanish colonists in Cuba willing to move across the Bahama channel to the mainland. Already voices were being raised against the offering of inducements to obtain settlers for the less desirable portions of the Spanish colonial …

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Tequesta: The Journal Of The Historical Association Of Southern Florida, No. 7, 1947, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Tequesta: The Journal Of The Historical Association Of Southern Florida, No. 7, 1947, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Tequesta: The Journal of the Historical Association of Southern. Florida, 1947, Number Seven, has appeared since the last issue of our QUARTERLY. This is published annually by that Association and the University of Miami as a bulletin of the University. The present number, as was the last, was edited by Dr. Charlton W. Tebeau, Head of the Department of History of the University.

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Essay On Middle Florida (Essai Sur La Floride Du Milieu), Comte De Castelnau Mar 2021

Essay On Middle Florida (Essai Sur La Floride Du Milieu), Comte De Castelnau

Florida Historical Quarterly

Translated by Arthur R. Seymour (Note-This essay was published in Nouvelles Annales des Voyages et des Sciences Geographiques, cx, vol. iv (1843) pp. 129-208. It will be followed in subsequent issues of the QUARTERLY by extracts translated from “Vues et Souvenirs de l’Amerique du Nord,” also by Francis de Castelnau (Paris, 1842), descriptive of eleven plates (of thirty-five in the volume) which are of Florida interest. Seven of these will be reproduced. There will be published also a translation of “Note de deux Itineraries de Charleston a Tallahassee” by the same author, which appeared in Bulletin de la Societe de …

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More About Dr. John Gorrie And Refrigeration, Ruth E. Mier Mar 2021

More About Dr. John Gorrie And Refrigeration, Ruth E. Mier

Florida Historical Quarterly

The principal source of the numerous brief sketches that have been written on the life of Dr. John Gorrie is four articles appearing in Ice and Refrigeration, of Chicago; and the first of these was, in the main, the source of the other three. Captain George H. Whiteside, whose brother Samuel J. Whiteside was a friend and contemporary of Dr. Gorrie’s, was the author of that article, entitled “Dr. John Gorrie, Sketch of the Career of the Original Inventor of the Ice Machine or Device for the Mechanical Production of Ice and Refrigeration.” His admiration for the man whose name …

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From Pensacola To St. Augustine In 1827: A Journey Of The Rt. Rev. Michael Portier, Michael Portier Mar 2021

From Pensacola To St. Augustine In 1827: A Journey Of The Rt. Rev. Michael Portier, Michael Portier

Florida Historical Quarterly

Michel Portier was born in Montbrison, France, in 1795. Entering the priesthood, he came to the United States in 1817, and in 1826 was made first Vicar Apostolic of the newly created vicariate of Alabama and the Floridas, in which there were but three parishes: Mobile, Pensacola and St. Augustine. It was Bishop Portier who in 1830 established Spring Hill College at Mobile, the influence of which on education in the South has been felt for more than a century. This account of his journey across Florida was written in French and published in Annales de la Propagation de la …

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Locating The County Seat Of Jackson County, Dorothy Dodd Mar 2021

Locating The County Seat Of Jackson County, Dorothy Dodd

Florida Historical Quarterly

Jackson county, when established by the act of August 12, 1822, extended from the Choctawhatchee river to the Suwannee. Terms of court were directed to be held at “the Big Spring, on the Chipola," the present Blue Spring. When Gadsden county was created in 1823 from that portion of Jackson county lying east of the Apalachicola, the Legislative Council directed that courts for Jackson county be held “at the Big Spring on the Choctahatcha” until a county seat should be permanently established. The council further provided for the appointment, by the County Court, of three commissioners to select a permanent …

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President Boyd And Other Notes, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

President Boyd And Other Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes donations to the library, new members, and contributors

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The Florida Historical Society: Report Of The Long-Range Committee, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society: Report Of The Long-Range Committee, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

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A Soldier’S View Of The Seminole War: Three Letters Of James B. Dallam, William D. Hoyt, Jr. Mar 2021

A Soldier’S View Of The Seminole War: Three Letters Of James B. Dallam, William D. Hoyt, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

Three letters from James B. Dallam, a soldier in the United States Army engaged in the war with the Seminole Indians, provide an interesting view of conditions in Florida in 1838-39 and of the progress of operations there during a lull in the fighting. 1 Written from three different posts-Fort Harllee, Fort Clinch, and Tampa Bay-the epistles describe events over a period of six months and refer hopefully to the prospects of peace. Sandwiched between accounts of negotiations with the Indians are accounts of the country itself, with considerable praise for the healthy climate and fine soil, and also the …

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Stephen Russell Mallory Part Ii, Occie Clubbs Mar 2021

Stephen Russell Mallory Part Ii, Occie Clubbs

Florida Historical Quarterly

Of those who have been identified with early Key West, one who has been given highest acclaim is Ellen Mallory, Stephen R. Mallory’s mother.

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Notes, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

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Stephen Russell Mallory, Occie Clubbs Mar 2021

Stephen Russell Mallory, Occie Clubbs

Florida Historical Quarterly

Perhaps Charles Mallory, as he worked at his carpenter’s bench somewhere in New England, dreamed that some day he might have a son to work beside him or to follow him at the same bench; and later, now a building superintendent and contractor in the island of Trinidad off the coast of South America, he may have dreamed again that the little Stephen playing about his shop or office, might become a great man. But if so, the reality far surpassed his dreams-for the boy became a member of the foremost legislative body of the world, and later was one …

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The City Of Wreckers: Two Key West Letters Of 1838, Kenneth Scott Mar 2021

The City Of Wreckers: Two Key West Letters Of 1838, Kenneth Scott

Florida Historical Quarterly

At the time of the war with the Seminoles a northern attorney, Charles Walker, spent some time at Key West. While there he sent two detailed letters to an uncle and aunt, Timothy Walker and his wife, Lydia, in his native Concord, New Hampshire. The pleasing style and keen observation of the writer afford a vivid picture of Key West shortly before 1840.

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The Alagon, Punon Rostro, And Vargas Grants, T. Frederick Davis Mar 2021

The Alagon, Punon Rostro, And Vargas Grants, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the year 1803, when public attention was directed to the question of our right of deposit at New Orleans, the United States House of Representatives appointed a committee to report upon certain matters, including the advisability of annexing Spanish East and West Florida to the United States. The report of this committee concluded: “If we look forward to the free use of the Mississippi, the Mobile, the Apalachicola, and the other rivers of the west, by ourselves and our posterity, New-Orleans and the Floridas must become a part of the U. States, either by purchase or by conquest.” This …

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The Grizzly, March 25, 2021, Simra Mariam, Marie Sykes, Dylan Melby, Gillian Mccomeskey, Shelsea Deravil, Layla Halterman, Faith Denner, Claire Vance, Rosalia Murphy, Ava Compagnoni Mar 2021

The Grizzly, March 25, 2021, Simra Mariam, Marie Sykes, Dylan Melby, Gillian Mccomeskey, Shelsea Deravil, Layla Halterman, Faith Denner, Claire Vance, Rosalia Murphy, Ava Compagnoni

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Fairytales on Campus • Rumor Debunked: Upper Wismer Will Not be Raising the Price of a Meal Swipe! • Bonner Leaders Address Food Insecurity in Norristown • The Beginning of Spring • Fulfill Food Bank Run by Guadagno '80, Fights COVID-19 Hunger • Opinion: Break Days - Useful Alternative or Useless Excuse for a Spring Break?; A Disappointed Senior Class • ACHA Health Survey Returns • Update on Spring Sports

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Physicians And Medicine In Early Jacksonville, Webster Merritt Mar 2021

Physicians And Medicine In Early Jacksonville, Webster Merritt

Florida Historical Quarterly

During the years 1829 to 1833, New Ross, a typical plantation of the early nineteenth century, lay on the border of the St. Johns river about four miles above Jacksonville. Of the happenings on the plantation Judge F. Bethune, its owner, kept a comprehensive account in his diary. On Friday, April 5, 1833, he wrote, “Andrew sick.” On Monday, April 8, he recorded, “Went to Jacksonville court Andrew sick,” and on the following day he added, “at Jacksonville returned before dinner with Dr. Hall had Andrew bled.” This account of the treatment of one of Judge Bethune’s slaves in accordance …

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