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Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 29, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


Union Nationalism In Florida, Herbert J. Doherty Jr. Apr 2021

Union Nationalism In Florida, Herbert J. Doherty Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

Much has been written about the secession movement in the South, about the fire-eaters, the defenders of state rights, the evolution of theories to protect minority property rights, and the development of that sectionalism which is sometimes termed “Southern nationalism.” Less is heard about Southern defenders of the Union-men who conceived of their national loyalty as devotion to the federal union rather than to a section. These latter men, it is true, were in a minority in the South, but they were usually men of wealth and position who were able to make their views known if not popular.


Florida Historical Society: The Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Florida Historical Society: The Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

On invitation of the University of Florida our annual meeting of 1950 was held in the Florida Union Auditorium on the campus there, April 14 and 15. It was successful in every way, with a large attendance from various parts of the State. There were three program sessions with papers written for presentation there, a luncheon, and the annual dinner.


Florida Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Florida Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Local historical societies in Florida can together accomplish much more towards the preservation of our State’s history than can the Florida Historical Society provided other societies are established in those areas where there are none now. Hence a major purpose of our Society should be and is cordial encouragement of them. Our members will recall the list of those societies in Florida which are active and inactive appended to the printed program of our last annual meeting. This shows that the number of active societies is larger now than at any time in the past. But the organization of other …


Book Review: East Florida, 1783-1785. A Pile Of Documents Assembled, And Many Of Them Translated, Donald E. Worcester Apr 2021

Book Review: East Florida, 1783-1785. A Pile Of Documents Assembled, And Many Of Them Translated, Donald E. Worcester

Florida Historical Quarterly

A review of Joseph Byrne Lackey, East Florida, 1783-1785. A Pile of Documents Assembled, and Many of Them Translated. Edited by John Walton Caughey (Berkeley and Lps Angeles, University of California Press, 1949. pp. xxiv, 764. index. $7.50).


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of John M. Goggin and Frank H. Sommer III: Excavations on Upper Matecumbe Key, Florida. Yale University Publications in Anthropology number forty-one. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949. (101 p., 8 plates, text figures); Gordon R. Willey : Excavations in Southeast Florida (Yale University Publications in Anthropology, number 42,. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949,137 pp., 8 text figures, 16 plates); Gordon R. Willey, Archeology of the Florida Gulf Coast. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 113. 559 pp., 60 pls., 76 figs., 20 maps, 17 tables. 1949. Government Printing Office, Washington.


Archeology In Florida, J. E. Dovell Apr 2021

Archeology In Florida, J. E. Dovell

Florida Historical Quarterly

For more than half a century archeologists from outside the State carried on virtually all of the excavations with accompanying studies done in Florida. Mostly they were scientists representing and supported by the Smithsonian Institution and other scientific institutions in the North who published the results of their work. Also includes a review of John W. Griffin, Editor, The Florida Indian and His Neighbors: Papers Delivered at anAnthropological Conference Held at Rollins College, April 9 and 10, 1949. (Winter Park : Inter-American Center, Rollins College, 1949.) 168 pp. 9 maps and tables, $1.00.


A Free Negro Purchases His Daughter, Herbert J. Doherty Jr. Apr 2021

A Free Negro Purchases His Daughter, Herbert J. Doherty Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

Many interesting sidelights to Southern history are to be found in the documents comprising the Richard Keith Call collection in the Florida Historical Society Library. Certain letters addressed to Call give us new and intriguing views of life in the old South. Here are two letters addressed to Call from Canada by a free Negro. We know very little about these letters or the circumstances surrounding them; as Call’s side of the correspondence is not preserved in the collection, nor is there any reference to the matter nor the persons in any other documents of the collection which this writer …


The Federal Campaign Of 1864 In East Florida, Mark F. Boyd Apr 2021

The Federal Campaign Of 1864 In East Florida, Mark F. Boyd

Florida Historical Quarterly

At this distance in time from the events of 1864 it is not possible to prepare a satisfactorily complete picture of the 1864 Federal campaign in East Florida. Basic for such a study is the extended series of orders and reports of Federal and Confederate general officers and unit commanders preserved in the War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume XXXV, Parts 1 and 2,1891 (page numbers in these volumes are hereafter cited in parentheses). A careful consideration of these leads to the conclusion that many gaps exist in the series.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 29, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Map: The Four Stages Of The Battle Of Olustee, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Map: The Four Stages Of The Battle Of Olustee, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Showing the approximate positions of Confederate and Federal Infantry Regiments in the four stages of the battle (Grant I. The Confederate data after Lieut. M. B.Grant. C.S.A.; the Federal data from interpretation of official and unofficial sources.


Contents Of Volume Xxix, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Contents Of Volume Xxix, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 29


Donations And Contributors, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Donations And Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Donations to the library, new members, and contributors


The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes notice of the annual meeting


The Jacksonville Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Jacksonville Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The historical program of the quarterly meeting of the Jacksonville Historical Society on February 9, arranged by Mr. Richard P. Daniel, was featured by two papers written for the occasion.


"Tequesta 1949, Annual Of The Historical Association Of Southern Florida", Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

"Tequesta 1949, Annual Of The Historical Association Of Southern Florida", Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The 1949 issue of Tequesta, the annual of the Historical Association of Southern Florida, which appeared while the last number of this QUARTERLY was in press, is the ninth of the series; and, as usual, contains a number of interesting historical articles relating to that region. Most of the papers were read at the program meetings of the Association and at the annual meeting of the Florida Historical Society last year when we were guests of that organization. The publication of these papers, year by year, makes a permanent addition to the recorded history of South Florida; a history which, …


St. Augustine, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

St. Augustine, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

In an article in the last issue of the QUARTERLY telling of several recently organized local and regional historical societies in Florida as evidence of the growth of interest in our State’s history, there were a few lines on St. Augustine.


A Florida Settler Of 1877: The Diary Of Erastus G. Hill, Erastus G. Hill Mar 2021

A Florida Settler Of 1877: The Diary Of Erastus G. Hill, Erastus G. Hill

Florida Historical Quarterly

The QUARTERLY is grateful to Mrs. L. H. Hill of Lawtey, Florida, for permission to publish this diary which has been preserved for so many years in her family, and to Mr. A. Z. Adkins, Jr. of Gainesville for bringing it to the attention of the QUARTERLY and securing that permission. Our readers, also, will thank them ; for here we have a firsthand account of why and how so many thousands of families moved to Florida in the early days.


Northern Plans For The Economic Invasion Of Florida, 1862-1865, Robert L. Clarke Mar 2021

Northern Plans For The Economic Invasion Of Florida, 1862-1865, Robert L. Clarke

Florida Historical Quarterly

Almost with the beginning of the fratricidal conflict of 1861-1865 far-seeing politicians and interested economic groups from the North began an economic invasion of the South. First, a Confiscation Act made all property used in support of the rebellion subject to seizure by the federal government. Later in 1861, despite Abraham Lincoln’s questioning of its constitutionality, Congress passed a second Confiscation Act which made the property of all Confederate officials subject to immediate confiscation by Union officials.


An Archeologist At Fort Gadsden, John W. Griffin Mar 2021

An Archeologist At Fort Gadsden, John W. Griffin

Florida Historical Quarterly

While the search for documentary evidence and the writing of articles and monographs on the history of Florida finds continued and increasing interest, the locations in Florida at which historic events occurred often lie neglected and all but forgotten. Such was the case of Fort Gadsden, a monument to the War of 1812 and to Andrew Jackson’s military forays into Spanish Florida. Recently, however, the United States Forest Service became interested in preserving and marking this structure as a historic site, and asked for the cooperation of the Florida Park Service in undertaking the background study necessary in such a …


Filibustering With The “Dauntless”, Richard V. Rickenbach Mar 2021

Filibustering With The “Dauntless”, Richard V. Rickenbach

Florida Historical Quarterly

Through the indefatigable efforts of Jose A. Huau and Alphonso Fritot, Jacksonville was an active center of filibustering to Cuba in the years 1895-98. Huau was important for his local influence, and his store on the corner of Bay and Main streets served as the clearing house for negotiations of the filibusterers. It seems now that it would have been all but impossible for the revolutionaries to be successful had they not had the aid of Fritot, for he was the joint agent of all the railroads running into Jacksonville. 1 He had the power of being able to secure …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 28, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes notice of the annual meeting


Contributors, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Historical Association Of Southern Florida, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Historical Association Of Southern Florida, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notes from The Historical Association of Southern Florida


The Jacksonville Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Jacksonville Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notes from the Jacksonville Historical Society


Book Review, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Book Review, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

A review of "Florida Anthropological Society Publications, Number One: Two Archeological Sites in Brevard County, Florida [by] Hale G. Smith. Published at the University of Florida, Gainesville, 1949. John W. Goggin, editor.”


Now Is The Time, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Now Is The Time, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Local histories are the foundation stones of State history. Florida, which is far behind its neighbors in the knowledge of its history, is beginning to catch up. A number of local and regional associations are organized, and some are collecting and preserving the historical material of their areas. Miami, Jacksonville, Pensacola, St. Petersburg, Palm Beach, the Manatee region, and others have collections. An important recent addition is the Tampa area with its Hillsborough County Historical Commission. There is a revival of historical effort in St. Augustine, the gem of Florida’s historic past, with the collection and work of the St. …


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

No abstract provided.


Negro Slavery In Florida, Part Ii, Edwin L. Williams, Jr. Mar 2021

Negro Slavery In Florida, Part Ii, Edwin L. Williams, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

As the plantation regime expanded in territorial Florida and the Negro population became more numerous it became necessary that the slave system should be supported by statutory law. The purpose of the law was primarily to control the slave through a strict regulation of the system, and only incidentally to give him protection from ill usage. In 1828 the Legislative Council laid the legal basis for future legislation concerning Negro slaves by the passage of an act which stated that “slaves shall be deemed, held, and taken as personal property for every purpose whatever." This act placed the Negro slave …