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The Editor's Corner, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

The Editor's Corner, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Mr. James Willard Milgram of 216 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn 1, New York, had an interesting cover and letter in a recent issue of the Weekly Philatelic Gossip. With the permission of that publication, a condensation of his article with the letter is reproduced for our readers.

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Contributors, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contributors to this issue

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Book Review: Railroads In Alabama Politics, 1875-1914, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Book Review: Railroads In Alabama Politics, 1875-1914, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Railroads in Alabama Politics, 1875-1914. By James F. Doster. University of Alabama Studies, No. 12. (Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press, 1957. 231 pp. Maps, bibliography and index. $4.00 paper, $5.00 cloth.)

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of The Territorial Papers of the United States, Volume XXV, The Territory of Florida, 1834-1839. Compiled and edited by Clarence Edwin Carter. (Washington, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1960. 790 pp. Index. $6.00.); Archivo General de Indias de Sevilla, Guia del Visitante, By Jose Maria de la Pena y Camara. (Madrid, Dirrecion General de Archivos y Bibliotecas, 1958. 206 pp. Charts and illustrations. 65 pesetas.); Marion Zaiser, The Beneficent Blaze: The Story of Major Lew D. Brown. (New York, Pageant Press, 1960. 347 pp. Plates. $4.00.); Prelude to Empire: Portugal Overseas before Henry the Navigator. By Bailey W. Diffie. …

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Sectionalism In The Peace Convention Of 1861, Jesse L. Keene Apr 2021

Sectionalism In The Peace Convention Of 1861, Jesse L. Keene

Florida Historical Quarterly

While angry clouds gathered in the southern sky and some southern states enacted ordinances of secession providing for funds and cannons, while the people of the North went their way, declaring that only a sprinkle would come from the angry clouds in the South, the appointed state commissioners of twenty-one states assembled at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D. C., February 4, 1861, at 12 o’clock, pursuant to the resolutions adopted by the General Assembly of Virginia, January 19, 1861.

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The Armed Occupation Act Of 1842, James W. Covington Apr 2021

The Armed Occupation Act Of 1842, James W. Covington

Florida Historical Quarterly

Throughout the history of advancing frontiers in many parts of the world there have been attractive offers of free land to brave and fool-hardy persons who would live at the dangerous edge of the advancing settlements. Such an offer was made to the retiring Roman legionnaires in the hope that they would live near the frontier line in Gaul and elsewhere and serve as added protection against the warlike German tribes. In 1630, a large tract of land was offered to each commander and fifty acres to other persons who would settle near the dangerous Pamunkey tribe in Virginia, and …

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Zora Neale Hurston, Theodore Pratt Apr 2021

Zora Neale Hurston, Theodore Pratt

Florida Historical Quarterly

For many years, when giving talks in Florida, I have pointed out that there is only one first-class native-born Florida author who has written any even small body of work about the state. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Philip Wylie, and all the others were born elsewhere and adopted the Florida scene. The exception was Zora Neale Hurston. Seldom, on inquiry, had any of the audiences ever heard of her or known any of her work. At that point I revealed to the white southern audiences that Zora was a Negro. As I announced this I looked around for the nearest exit. …

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The Avero Story: An Early Saint Augustine Family With Many Daughters And Many Houses, Charles W. Arnade Apr 2021

The Avero Story: An Early Saint Augustine Family With Many Daughters And Many Houses, Charles W. Arnade

Florida Historical Quarterly

By November 10, 1702, the English forces led by the ruthless James Moore, Governor of English Carolina, had occupied the town of St. Augustine. Over 1500 people took refuge in the Spanish fort which the English never were able to conquer. For two months Moore besieged the fort. The Spanish artillery was weak and ineffectual in driving away the enemy; the English artillery was inadequate against the massive walls of the fort. Moore tried to place his guns within closer range of the moat. The Spanish, afraid of this maneuver, dispatched a patrol with orders to burn all houses within …

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Contents Of Volume Xxxx, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Contents Of Volume Xxxx, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 40

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Contributors, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contributors to this issue

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News And Notes, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

News And Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notes from local historical societies, National Historic Sites Registry

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Cora Crane: A Biography of Mrs. Stephen Crane. By Lillian Gilkes. (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1960. 416 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes on sources, index. $6.75.); Opening the Case Against the U. S. De Soto Commission’s Report, and other DeSoto Papers. Being a “Thoroughgoing Examination” of the Part in re Present Florida of the FINAL REPORT OF THE U. S. DESOTO EXPEDITION COMMISSION Vicariously Sponsored by the 75th Congress, 1st Session. By Warren Hager Wilkinson. (Jacksonville Beach, Florida, Alliance for the Preservation of Florida Antiquities, 1960. 93 pp. Maps. $3.00.); Herbs, Hoecakes and Husbandry! The Daybook of a Planter …

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Book Review: The Augusta Chronicle: Indomitable Voice Of Dixie 1785-1960., Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Book Review: The Augusta Chronicle: Indomitable Voice Of Dixie 1785-1960., Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

A review of THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE: Indomitable Voice of Dixie 1785-1960. By Earl L. Bell and Kenneth C. Crabbe. (Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1960. xii, 273 pp. Illustrations, appendices, bibliography, and index. $5.00.)

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Philemon Thomas And The West Florida Revolution, Henry Eugene Sterkx Apr 2021

Philemon Thomas And The West Florida Revolution, Henry Eugene Sterkx

Florida Historical Quarterly

During the first decade of the nineteenth century many Americans moved into the Spanish province of West Florida. Some came to establish new homes or to engage in conspiracies against the weak Spanish government. Others came to escape justice or seek asylum from slavery. The province had a strange population made up of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Americans, traders, land speculators, army deserters, fleeing debtors, fugitives from justice, filibusterers, and others of infamous background. Moving into this milieu in 1805 was Philemon Thomas. This native of Virginia and ex-Kentuckian had led an interesting and exciting life. He was born in Orange County, …

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German Espionage In Florida During World War Ii, Leon O. Prior Apr 2021

German Espionage In Florida During World War Ii, Leon O. Prior

Florida Historical Quarterly

Only one Florida resident was arrested and convicted by the United States government for performing German inspired espionage in Florida during World War II. This one misguided individual was forty-nine year old Carl Herman Schroetter, with aliases John Charles Post and Captain Jack Post. He was arrested at his residence, 220 Northwest 33rd. Avenue, Miami, Florida, on September 2, 1941, by special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Upon arraignment before the United States Commissioner at Miami, Schroetter was charged with gathering and mailing information concerning the national defense to another German agent, Kurt Frederick Ludwig, in New York …

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A Report On The Site Of Camp Finegan, William M. Jones Apr 2021

A Report On The Site Of Camp Finegan, William M. Jones

Florida Historical Quarterly

At the time of this writing, nearly a century has passed since the end of the “War of the Rebellion.” Many of the earthworks, and other types of defenses, constructed by the “Boys in Blue and in Gray,” have fallen victim to the ravages of time; still others are being leveled to make way for progress.

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Mapping Old St. Joseph, Its Railroads, And Environs, Robert R. Hurst, Jr. Apr 2021

Mapping Old St. Joseph, Its Railroads, And Environs, Robert R. Hurst, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

Many people have heard the story of the old city of St. Joseph, which existed between 1836 and 1844 in the area of the present city of Port St. Joe, on the Gulf of Mexico, a score of miles from the mouth of the Apalachicola River. The story of St. Joseph has been told in many places and in conflicting forms. Novels and scholarly articles have been written about the city and the story of the destruction by fever and flood of “the wickedest city in the South” has been told in many sermons. Much of this legend is false, …

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The Advent Of The Spanish-American War In Florida, 1898, William J. Schellings Apr 2021

The Advent Of The Spanish-American War In Florida, 1898, William J. Schellings

Florida Historical Quarterly

On February 1, 1898, the Jacksonville Times Union and Citizen angrily denounced General Nelson Miles for what it termed an attempt to waste the taxpayers’ money. Miles had appeared before a Congressional committee with a plea for funds with which to build fortifications around Washington. The Jacksonville editor declared that there was “no war in sight,” and that the money might better be spent on the construction of an intracoastal waterway, a project already looming large in the minds of many Floridians. His denial of any need for defenses was merely another manner of expressing his stubborn opposition to anything …

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Civil War Operations In And Around Pensacola Part Iii, Edwin C. Bearss Apr 2021

Civil War Operations In And Around Pensacola Part Iii, Edwin C. Bearss

Florida Historical Quarterly

Five days subsequent to the great artillery duel of November 22-23 Bragg endeavored to transmit mail to the Confederate prisoners held by the Yankees. Brown refused to receive the letters and even disdained to state his reasons for so doing. He was by no means as courteous and amiable as he had been after the attack on his outside confrere, Colonel Wilson. Later in the day a small yawl attempted to enter the bay from the fleet, a privilege heretofore accorded to the Federals, as until November 22 the Rebels’ vessels had been allowed to tie up at the navy …

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Contributors, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contributors to this issue

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News And Notes, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

News And Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notice of the annual meeting, Notes from local historical societies

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The Editor's Corner, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

The Editor's Corner, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

For years the Editor of the Quarterly has considered the inclusion of a new section. Letters and other items of interest will be published from time to time in this section of our publication. The first letter is from Major Keenan, who has a large and valuable collection on the Seminole wars and who is an authority on names and locations.

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Juan Ponce de Leon. By Vincente Murga Sanz. (San Juan: Universidad de Puerto Rico Press, 1959. Ediciones de la Universidad de Puerto Rico. 386 pp. Illustrations, notes, biblography and index.); The Spanish Settlements within the Present Limits of the United States 1513-1574. By Woodbury Lowery. (New York: Russell & Russell. 1959. 2 Vols. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, appendices, index. $13.50); Dictionary of the American Indian. By John L. Stoutenburgh, Jr. (New York: Philosophical Library, 1960. vi, 462 pp. $10.00.); The Fall of Richmond. By Rembert W. Patrick. (Baton Rouge: Lousiana State University Press, 1960. ix, 144 pp. Illustrations, map, …

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Pensacola's Exiled Government, W. B. Skinner Apr 2021

Pensacola's Exiled Government, W. B. Skinner

Florida Historical Quarterly

Judah P. Benjamin, Confederate secretary of war, ordered General Braxton Bragg, commanding officer of Confederate forces at Pensacola, to send as many troops as he could to Tennessee. On February 18, 1862, Bragg issued orders to abandon Pensacola. Upon Bragg’s departure, General Sam Jones assumed the command with the instructions to destroy everything in the Pensacola area which might be of use to the Federal forces who occupied Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island. The destruction was completed by May 9th and the following day the Federals occupied Pensacola.

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A 16th Century French "Mug Book" Brings To Light Interesting Comments On, Charles E. Bennett Apr 2021

A 16th Century French "Mug Book" Brings To Light Interesting Comments On, Charles E. Bennett

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1584 Andre Thevet published in Paris a 16th century counterpart of the type of thing we call today a “mug book,” a book containing portraits and biographies of leading citizens of the time and place involved. He titled his book “Les Vrais Pourtraits et Vies des Hommes” and it was printed by Keruert. It deals with the important French leaders of the 16th century - 150 of them. One of them was Charles IX, for whom Fort Caroline was named. The last article in the book is about Saturiba, the well known Indian chief who befriended the Fort Caroline …

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Early Letters From R. K. Call, Willie D. Halsell Apr 2021

Early Letters From R. K. Call, Willie D. Halsell

Florida Historical Quarterly

Richard Keith Call and Edward Brett Randolph were both born in Virginia, only a few months apart. Since they were distantly related, they may have known each other before their participation in the Indian wars in the southeast and Florida. By 1819, they had made exceptional reputations for loyalty and bravery, Randolph at Fort Erie and Chippaway, both in the Indian campaigns.

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A 16th Century French Manuscript Bearing The Only Known Signature Of Rene Laudonniere, Charles E. Bennett Apr 2021

A 16th Century French Manuscript Bearing The Only Known Signature Of Rene Laudonniere, Charles E. Bennett

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Fort Caroline National Memorial at Jacksonville, Florida, has been for several years assembling for ultimate display at its museum various objects illustrative of the methods of navigation used by the explorers and settlers of the 16th century. I have been assisting in this search, and as a by product of it we recently discovered and purchased by private donations the only known signature of Rene Laudonniere, the French Governor of Fort Caroline. Under this man’s leadership the permanent settlement of what is now the United States was begun. A map dealer in England (Maggs Brothers) told us about the …

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Civil War Operations In And Around Pensacola Part Ii, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Civil War Operations In And Around Pensacola Part Ii, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The new Confederate commander at Pensacola seemed omnipresent. In conjunction with Colonel William J. Hardee, commander at Fort Morgan, the bastion guarding the eastern approaches to Mobile Bay, a reconnaissance was conducted preparatory to the opening of a new line of communication between Mobile and Pensacola. It was hoped that an easier route could be developed between these two key points by utilizing water and land transportation, via Bon Secours, Bear Creek, and Perdido Bay, eliminating the long, slow overland trek from Blakely.

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Spring Training In Florida, J. Roy Stockton Apr 2021

Spring Training In Florida, J. Roy Stockton

Florida Historical Quarterly

Spring training serves many purposes for the great American game and business of baseball. The primary objective, of course, is to get the players into the best possible physical condition for the arduous, 154-game pennant races during which the championships of the two major leagues are decided. During this conditioning process young players and others who may have been obtained in trades are inspected and tested in practice sessions, squad games, and exhibition contests.

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Sidney J. Catts And The Democratic Primary Of 1920, Warren A. Jennings Apr 2021

Sidney J. Catts And The Democratic Primary Of 1920, Warren A. Jennings

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1920 Florida stood on the threshold of her “great boom;” economic optimism prevailed. However, to many people within the state one obstacle stood in the way of bountiful prosperity - “Cattsism,” a term of derision applied to the political principles and campaign tactics of Sidney J. Catts, the governor of the state. Only four years before he had risen from obscurity to notoriety. A more disruptive and divisive personality has seldom appeared on the political scene of any state. There was no middle ground in the opinions of the politicians or the public about this political parvenu; he was …

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