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Sergeant Major Ayala Y Escobar And The Threatened St. Augustine Mutiny, William R. Gillaspie
Sergeant Major Ayala Y Escobar And The Threatened St. Augustine Mutiny, William R. Gillaspie
Florida Historical Quarterly
On the morning of June 19, 1712, the Spanish presidio of St. Augustine narrowly escaped a mutiny against the crown’s constituted authority in Florida, Governor Francisco de Corcoles y Martinez. The threatened uprising, which involved the governor’s second-in-command, Sergeant Major Juan de Ayala y Escobar, vividly illustrated the principal weakness in the colonial administration of Spanish Florida - the formation of a power structure headed by the sergeant major which continuously threatened to undermine the power and authority of the governor. The development of this extra-legal body, climaxed by the “sordid affair” of June 19, took on added significance when …
Florida In The Balance: The Electoral Count Of 1876, Jerrell H. Shofner
Florida In The Balance: The Electoral Count Of 1876, Jerrell H. Shofner
Florida Historical Quarterly
For a few weeks following the 1876 election, Florida’s role in national affairs was greater than the state’s four electoral votes would normally warrant. With the presidency depending on one electoral vote and the Florida election in doubt, both the Democratic and Republican parties concentrated attention on the electoral count in Tallahassee. The activities of influential “visiting statesmen” representing the national parties affected the decision of the state canvassing board and caused temporary excitement in Florida. After their departure and the ultimate resolution of the election dispute, political affairs in the state returned to normal with little permanent influence from …
The Open-Closed Shop Battle In Tampa's Cigar Industry, 1919-1921, Durward Long
The Open-Closed Shop Battle In Tampa's Cigar Industry, 1919-1921, Durward Long
Florida Historical Quarterly
Labor problems in Tampa’s cigar industry began almost simultaneously with the beginning of the enterprise in 1885. Although the industry enjoyed phenomenal growth during its first fifteen years it suffered an expensive strike in 1901 when La Resistencia, the labor society of the Spanish-speaking workmen, demanded a union shop. La Resistencia lost the strike because of a lack of strike funds and because the Tampa Cigar Manufacturers’ Association and a group of businessmen calling themselves the Citizens Committee combined to fight the society. Following La Resistencia’s defeat local unions of the Cigar Makers’ International Union became the dominant labor group …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 47, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contributors to this issue
Historical News, Florida Historical Society
Historical News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Memorial prizes, activities and events
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Smith, The Death of Slavery: The United States, 1837-1865, by David L. Smiley; Massey, Bonnet Brigades, by Elsie M. Lewis; Current, Three Carpetbag Governors, by Mary Elizabeth Massey; Tawes, Coasting Captain: Journals of Captain Leonard S. Tawes Relating His Career in Atlantic Coastwise Sailing Craft from 1868-1922, by K. Jack Bauer; Boswell, The America: The Story of the World’s Most Famous Yacht, by Edward A. Mueller; Hill, Southern Churches in Crisis, by Byron S. Hollinshead; Thompson (ed.), Perspectives on the South: Agenda for Research, by Hugh T. Lefler; Greene, A Lifetime with the Birds: An Ornithological Logbook, by …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Douglas, Florida: The Long Frontier, by Gloria Jahoda; Mahon, History of the Second Seminole War, 1835-1842, by Francis Paul Prucha; Pratt, That Was Palm Beach, by David A. Forshay; Sanger, World of the Great White Heron: A Saga of the Florida Keys, by Thelma Peters; Sherman, Robert Johnson: Proprietary & Royal Governor of South Carolina, by Michael G. Kammen; Eckert, The Frontiersmen: A Narrative, by Frank Lawrence Owsley, Jr.
Postscript To John Bemrose's Reminiscences, John K. Mahon
Postscript To John Bemrose's Reminiscences, John K. Mahon
Florida Historical Quarterly
Since John Bemrose's Reminiscences of the Second Seminole War was published, additional information about the author has been found. Inconsequential though the new data is, perhaps some of the fun of uncovering it can be communicated to the reader. From the date of publication it has troubled me that I did not know what became of Bemrose after he had returned to his native England. The opportunity to fill in the unknown factors came during the summer of 1967, when I was in Britain.
Fort Pierce American Gold Find, Carl J. Clausen
Fort Pierce American Gold Find, Carl J. Clausen
Florida Historical Quarterly
"The probability is that the treasure will never be recovered," states the Charleston Daily Courier, reporting in 1857 the accidental loss of a sizeable United States army payroll in a Florida east coast inlet. The Third Seminole War, which officially started with the not entirely unprovoked attack by the Indians on a government survey party near Fort Myers in late December 1855, was in its seventeenth month when Major Jeremiah Yellot Dashiell of the army paymaster corps arrived off the Indian River Inlet on the east coast of Florida on May 1, 1857. Entrusted to Dashiell was a leather pouch …
Contract Labor In Florida During Reconstruction, Edward K. Eckert
Contract Labor In Florida During Reconstruction, Edward K. Eckert
Florida Historical Quarterly
Until relatively recent times the historiography of the Reconstruction period in Florida could be summed up by Claude G. Bowers’ three-word paragraph, “Florida was putrid.” Legislatures full of swindlers, “railroad steals,” “shabby strangers,” and “old black mammies,” praising God and voting Republican, were all a part of the traditional image of this so-called dark era of United States history. Revisionist historians such as Howard K. Beale, David Donald, Kenneth Stampp, and Rembert W. Patrick have challenged this view. They describe the years after the Civil War as a progressive age for the South when civil, educational, and economic reforms brought …
Fighting Men View The Western War, 1862-1864, George C. Bittle
Fighting Men View The Western War, 1862-1864, George C. Bittle
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Florida units fighting the Confederate cause in the West made no major contribution to the overall war effort, yet many Florida officers and men did yeomen service in the South’s Army of Tennessee. The experiences of these soldiers certainly reflect those of many other Confederate fighting men in the same army. In this sense, the trials and tribulations of these Floridians may be used to illustrate the changing conditions among at least one segment of the southern troops on a very important front of the Civil War.
A View Of Celi's Journal Of Surveys And Chart Of 1757, John D. Ware
A View Of Celi's Journal Of Surveys And Chart Of 1757, John D. Ware
Florida Historical Quarterly
The San Francisco de Asis was a xebec, one of a class of relatively small three-masted sailing vessels used around the Spanish and Portuguese coasts. Her fore and mizzenmasts were lateen rigged, and her mainmast was square rigged, having three sails - main, lower main, and upper mainsails. This type was frequently outfitted with oars for use in calm water, but there is no indication that this vessel was so equipped.
Celi's Expedition To Tampa Bay: A Historical Analysis, Charles W. Arnade
Celi's Expedition To Tampa Bay: A Historical Analysis, Charles W. Arnade
Florida Historical Quarterly
"De la Havana al Puerto de Tampa, Año de 1757, Diario de Reconocimientos, Oceano Atlantico Septentrional" by Don Francisco Maria Celi is unquestionably a key document in Florida history and the history of Tampa Bay. The chronology of its recent discovery is not too complicated. Celi, “Pilot of the Royal Spanish Navy” and commander of the Florida expedition, carefully prepared a useful and artistically beautiful map that went with his report. This map (actually there were two versions) was known to modern historians, but the accompanying report was not. The late Clarence Simpson had knowledge of the Celi map, as …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 47, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents
Contents Of Volume Xlvii, Florida Historical Society
Contents Of Volume Xlvii, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 46
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contributors to this issue
Director's Meeting, December 2, 1967, Florida Historical Society
Director's Meeting, December 2, 1967, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Minutes from the directors meeting
Historical News, Florida Historical Society
Historical News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Notice of the annual meeting; manuscript acquisitions; activities and events
Book Notes, Florida Historical Society
Book Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Short notes about a variety of books
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Gregory and Strickland, Sam Houston With the Cherokees, 1829-1833, by Frank Laumer; Ringold, The Role of the State Legislatures in the Confederacy, by Daisy Parker; Sefton, The United States Army and Reconstruction, 1865-1877, by Phillip S. Paludan; Evans, Ballots and Fence Rails: Reconstruction on the Lower Cape Fear, by Daniel W. Hollis; Krueger, And Promises to Keep: The Southern Conference for Human Welfare, 1938-1948, by Ralph F. de Bedts; Helm, Hurricanes: Weather at its Worst, by Wyatt Blassingame; Plowden, Those Amazing Ringlings and Their Circus, by Marian Murray; Tarrant, James Branch Cabell: The Dream and the Reality, by …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Patrick and Morris, Florida Under Five Flags, by Charlton W. Tebeau; Jahoda, The Other Florida, by Dena Snodgrass; Wickham, St. Augustine Florida, 1565-1965, by Michael V. Gannon; Damkohler, Estero, Florida, 1882: Memoirs of the First Settler, by Durward Long; Lawson, A New Voyage to Carolina, by John Anthony Caruso; Callahan, Flight From the Republic: The Tories of the American Revolution, by Charles L. Mowat; Bertelson, The Lazy South, by Thomas D. Clark
Cross-Florida Barge Canal, 1927-1968, J. Richard Sewell
Cross-Florida Barge Canal, 1927-1968, J. Richard Sewell
Florida Historical Quarterly
The early and later history of the Cross-Florida Barge Canal is said to be divided by the enactment of the River and Harbor Act, signed into law January 21, 1927 by President Calvin Coolidge. This act authorized the secretary of war to make a preliminary examination and survey of the “Waterway from Cumberland Sound, Georgia and Florida, to the Mississippi River,” and it had had the full support of President Harding, Coolidge’s predecessor, who declared himself in favor of the broadest development of the country’s inland waterways. Henry Holland Buckman, who has been called the “father confessor” of the present …
Secession Of Florida From The Union - A Minority Decision?, John F. Reiger
Secession Of Florida From The Union - A Minority Decision?, John F. Reiger
Florida Historical Quarterly
In 1860 the majority of white Floridians probably assumed that a victory for Republicanism would put in power those who would oppress the South. With the election of Lincoln, many Floridians believed secession the only alternative to northern domination. Others, however, refused to believe it.
Migration Into Florida Of The Seminoles, 1700-1820, James W. Covington
Migration Into Florida Of The Seminoles, 1700-1820, James W. Covington
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Seminole Indians were relatively late arrivals to the Florida peninsula; the Apalachees, Calusas, Timucuans, and smaller tribes had settled the area much earlier. The Seminole migrations into Florida came in three distinct phases: in the period between 1702-1750, they made raids against the Spainards and their Indian allies, and although the Seminoles acquired much knowledge of the Florida terrain, no significant settlements were made. In the period 1750-1812, six or more villages were established in the northern part of Florida, and small parties explored the entire peninsula in search of deer, bear, and other game, and to make contact …
Encounter By The River, Frank Laumer
Encounter By The River, Frank Laumer
Florida Historical Quarterly
It was mid-winter 1835 in Florida and the United States Army was gathering its strength at Fort Drane. Until a month ago the place was called “Auld Lang Syne,” a plantation devoted to raising sugar-cane on some 3,000 acres in the center of the Territory. It had gained the status of “fort” by the expedient of erecting a twelve-foot pine-log wall in a rectangle 460 yards in circumference around the main building. For ten years the owner had tended his dual duties as planter and general, but now the hue and cry was raised again and Fort Drane was headquarters …
Rembert Wallace Patrick: A Bibliography, Edward K. Eckert
Rembert Wallace Patrick: A Bibliography, Edward K. Eckert
Florida Historical Quarterly
The following bibliography is an attempt to bring together all of Rembert W. Patrick’s published works in one place convenient to scholars. The list is complete through December 1, 1967. Little attempt has been made to note unpublished works, among which are comments and papers delivered at various historical meetings, including the paper, “The Florida Historical Quarterly,” given at the annual meeting of the Florida Historical Society in St. Augustine, April 13, 1956. It should be noted that Professor Patrick was general editor of the twenty-one volumes in the Floridiana Facsimile & Reprint Series, published by the University of Florida …
Rembert Wallace Patrick, Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.
Rembert Wallace Patrick, Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the Fall of 1940 a young South Carolinian with a brandnew doctor’s degree in history from the University of North Carolina appeared among the new faculty members at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Rembert Wallace Patrick had begun his long and warm association with Florida, its people, and its history. In the small, north Florida college town the youthful historian energetically devoted himself to his work and soon won the devoted following of students and the affection and respect of his colleagues. Though he was a practical, down-to-earth man, he quickly revealed a dry, often irreverent sense of …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 46, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contributors to this issue