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Cuban Bloodhounds And The Seminoles, James W. Covington
Cuban Bloodhounds And The Seminoles, James W. Covington
Florida Historical Quarterly
Throughout history man has made use of animals in his warfare. During the Middle Ages the “Man on horseback” gained many victories against those on foot who opposed him and it was not until the effective use of the long bow and gun powder that the foot soldier could hold his own in combat. The first animal that European man domesticated was the dog. Even as late as World War II canines of several breeds were used by both sides to guard against surprise attack and to track down fleeing foes and prisoners.
The Case Of Some Inhabitants Of East Florida, 1767-1785, Barbara Gorely Teller
The Case Of Some Inhabitants Of East Florida, 1767-1785, Barbara Gorely Teller
Florida Historical Quarterly
In London, in the spring of 1823, a young clerk named Daniel, in the House of Delcroix, Perfumers, received word that Mrs. Isabella Stout, widow of Daniel Stout of Nassau in the Bahamas, had been searching the length and breadth of England for him, as he was heir to part of the estate left by his aunt, Mary Rolph Stout of Nassau. The Colonial Secretary for the Bahamas, Mr. Samuel Nesbit, had also been searching, and about the same time located young Daniel and other members of his mother’s family, the Rolphs of Canterbury, who empowered Nesbit to receive their …
The Florida Executive Council, An Experiment In Civil War Administration, William C. Havard
The Florida Executive Council, An Experiment In Civil War Administration, William C. Havard
Florida Historical Quarterly
The conduct of a major war, even under favorable conditions of internal stability, often results in a state of organized confusion in the government. For the South in the Civil War, the administration of the war effort was complicated to an unusual degree by the necessity of simultaneously reorganizing the political union which bound the states together. And even within the individual states themselves, the urgency of the war situation demanded the assumption of governmental functions which were new to the states-functions such as external defense, control of the manufacturing and transportation of essential goods, and the financing of these …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 33, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
The Library - A Proposal, Florida Historical Society
The Library - A Proposal, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
We have made a noteworthy, a surprising increase in membership, and this is now larger than ever before. We are proud of that, but our library is important, too. Membership comes first and we cannot let down there, for we must expect to lose members continually and would die without new members. Also, we should have in mind a home for our Society sometime in the future. But shall we not emphasize our library now.
Membership, Florida Historical Society
Membership, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Notes on membership in FHS
The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Notes from the annual meeting, minutes, report of the treasurer, resolutions
Local And Regional Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society
Local And Regional Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Notes from the Jacksonville Historical Society, the Historical Association of Southern Florida, the St. Augustine Historical Society, and the Tallahassee Historical Society
Florida Historical Society Essay Contest For High School Students, Sandra Lewis
Florida Historical Society Essay Contest For High School Students, Sandra Lewis
Florida Historical Quarterly
First Prize to Sandra Lewis, Dan McCarty High School, White City: History of White City, Florida
The Governorship Of Andrew Jackson, Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.
The Governorship Of Andrew Jackson, Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
It was a stifling hot day in July of 1821 but the inhabitants of Pensacola, Florida, and hundreds of recently arrived newcomers were all jammed into the town’s central plaza. This was to be an important day in the lives of the people of Florida, for at ten o’clock in the morning the gaunt gray figure of Andrew Jackson would stalk from the governor’s residence and cross the plaza to the government house where the ceremonies marking the transfer of the Floridas from Spain to the United States would be completed. As he sat in the governor’s residence eating breakfast …
Plantation Economy In Leon County 1830-1840, Julia Hering
Plantation Economy In Leon County 1830-1840, Julia Hering
Florida Historical Quarterly
The area of cotton culture in Florida during the ante-bellum period was located mainly between the Apalachicola and Suwannee rivers, and in 1840 comprised the counties of Leon, Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton and Gadsden. It is significant that this area constituted then more or less an island in northern Florida whose economy, social structure, and soil type differed from that in the remainder of the state. In this comparatively small and isolated region there came into being, between 1830 and 1840, a cotton economy which compared favorably with that of the Georgia Piedmont or the Black Belt of Alabama. The emphasis …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 33, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents
Contents Of Volume Xxxiii, Florida Historical Society
Contents Of Volume Xxxiii, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 33
The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Notice of the annual meeting, new members, accessions to the library, contributors
Local And Regional Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society
Local And Regional Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Notes from the Jacksonville Historical Society, the Historical Association of Southern Florida, and the Pensacola Historical Society
County Historical Commissions, Florida Historical Society
County Historical Commissions, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida is behind many states in the preservation of local history. Our Florida Historical Society is accomplishing much for the State’s history, but we can do little beyond encouragement at the county, town, and community levels; and in the aggregate those histories are of greater importance than that which relates to Florida as a whole.
Book Review: Hundredth Birthday, Duval County Medical Society, Florida Historical Society
Book Review: Hundredth Birthday, Duval County Medical Society, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Duval County Medical Society has published a quarto volume of 127 pages with the above title to commemorate its century of activity. The organization, on May 25, 1853, antedated by nearly a quarter of a century the establishment of the Florida Medical Association, for which the Duval County Society was largely responsible.
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Journey into Wilderness; An Army Surgeon’s Account of Life in Camp and Field during the Creek and Seminole Wars, 1836-1838; by Jacob Rhett Motte, edited by James F. Sunderman. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1953. Pp. xxxv, 326.; Fleur de Lys and Calumet: Being the Penicaut Narrative of French Adventure in Louisiana. Translated and edited by Richebourg Gaillard McWilliams. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1953. Pp. xxxiii, 282. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, appendixes, index. $4.00.); Introduction, four pencil sketches, nine maps, notes, bibliography, index. $6.00.)
Book Review: Florida Fiasco, Kathryn Abbey Hanna
Book Review: Florida Fiasco, Kathryn Abbey Hanna
Florida Historical Quarterly
A review of Florida Fiasco: by Rembert W. Patrick. University of Georgia Press, Athens, 1954: (pp. x, 359, notes, bibliography, index, no maps or illustrations, $5.)
Tequesta Vol. Xiii, Florida Historical Society
Tequesta Vol. Xiii, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The 1953 issue of Tequesta appeared after the last number of this Quarterly went to press and contains three articles of unusual historical interest. Together they make this the most valuable issue of the thirteen which have been published-in fact, perhaps no other one issue of any Florida historical periodical has included three articles of equal importance.
A Religious Revival In Tallahassee In 1843, Nathan Hoyt
A Religious Revival In Tallahassee In 1843, Nathan Hoyt
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the Woodrow Wilson Papers in the Library of Congress there is a manuscript narrative (here reproduced) of a religious revival held in Tallahassee in 1843 by the Rev. Nathan Hoyt, grandfather of Ellen Axson, wife of President Wilson. He was then pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Athens, Georgia. Evidently, Georgians of that period considered Florida as a field for missionary work.
The Occupation Of Jacksonville, 1864 And The Battle Of Olustee, Letters Of Lt. C. M. Duren, C. M. Duren
The Occupation Of Jacksonville, 1864 And The Battle Of Olustee, Letters Of Lt. C. M. Duren, C. M. Duren
Florida Historical Quarterly
Charles M. Duren of Bangor, Maine, enlisted in 1861 in the 24th Massachusetts Regiment and saw much service, including the battles of New Bern, the noteworthy attack on Fort Wagner, and others in that area. He was promoted to 2nd. Lieutenant (1863) in the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (a Negro regiment with white officers) and commanded Company D of that regiment in the battle of Olustee, the only major engagement of the War in Florida. This brought a promotion to 1st. Lieutenant. Some time later he was shot in the knee and thrown from his horse, breaking his leg. He …
The Notorious Swepson-Littlefield Fraud: Railroad Financing In Florida (1868-1871), Paul E. Fenlon
The Notorious Swepson-Littlefield Fraud: Railroad Financing In Florida (1868-1871), Paul E. Fenlon
Florida Historical Quarterly
A full account of the financial manipulations of George W. Swepson and Milton S. Littlefield in Florida during the hectic post-Civil War period would entail consideration of scores of events with which a great number of persons were concerned. It is possible, however, to indicate the essential elements involved in their activities through the examination of six major developments that occurred between 1868 and 1871.
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 32, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Annual Meeting of the Society is called to be held in Tallahassee, at the invitation of the Tallahassee Historical Society, on March 25, 26 and 27, 1954. Also includes notes from the Director's Meeting, new members, new subscribers, and contributors
Local And Regional Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society
Local And Regional Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Notes from the Talllahassee Historical Society, Jacksonville Historical Society, Historical Association of Southern Florida, and the Pensacola Historical Society
Notes From The Annual Meeting Of The Southern Historical Association, Florida Historical Society
Notes From The Annual Meeting Of The Southern Historical Association, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association, held for the first time in Florida, at Jacksonville on November 12, 13, 14, was attended by several hundred historians and others interested from all parts of the South. An account of the plans made for the event and the several Florida host groups and committees appeared in the last issue of this Quarterly - especially noted was the Florida session with papers by Florida historical writers.
Book Review: Politica Continental Americana De Espana En Cuba 1812-1830., Albert Manucy
Book Review: Politica Continental Americana De Espana En Cuba 1812-1830., Albert Manucy
Florida Historical Quarterly
A review of Jose L. Franco: Politica Continental Americana de Espana en Cuba 1812-1830. No. XV de las Publicaciones del Archivo Nacional de Cuba. La Habana 1949. (Pp. vi, 429, illustrated, bibliography. Not indexed.)
Territorial Papers Of The United States: Alabama 1817-1819, Florida Historical Society
Territorial Papers Of The United States: Alabama 1817-1819, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Volume xviii of this series, relating to Alabama, has been published. As the territorial status of Alabama lasted only from 1817 when it was created from a portion of the territory of Mississippi, to 1819 when it was admitted as a state, this one volume contains all of the Alabama documents to be published.
Letters Of A Florida Settler In 1877, W. A. Smith
Letters Of A Florida Settler In 1877, W. A. Smith
Florida Historical Quarterly
W. A. Smith was born in Hadley, Mass., in 1826. During his early boyhood his family moved to Wisconsin where he grew up. After marrying and raising a family of two sons and a daughter, he removed to Cortland, N. Y. Reading of Florida’s attractions, he decided to settle there. En route to Florida, he made expenses by giving Bible lectures illustrated by magic lantern slides.