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Historical News, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Historical News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Wellman, The House Divides: The Age of Jackson and Lincoln, from the War of 1812 to the Civil War, by Holman Hamilton; Halasz, The Rattling Chains: Slave Unrest and Revolt in the Antebellum South, by Joe M. Richardson; Posey, Frontier Mission: A History of Religion West of the Southern Appalachians to 1861, by John Opie; Barret (ed.) Yankee Rebel: The Civil War Journal of Edmund DeWitt Patterson, by Glenn Tucker; Eller (ed.), Civil War Naval Chronology, 1861-1865: Part VI - Special Studies and Cumulative Index, by Edwin C. Bearss; Hyman (ed.), New Frontier of the American Reconstruction, by …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Will, A Dredgeman of Cape Sable, by Baynard Kendrick; Weidling and Burghard, Checkered Sunshine: The Story of Fort Lauderdale, 1793-1955, by Charlton W. Tebeau; Ott and Chazal, Ocali Country: Kingdom of the Sun, 1539-1965, by Richard A. Martin; Ney, Palm Beach: The Place, The People, Its Pleasures and Palaces, by James R. Knott and George L. Hern, Jr.; TenEick, History of Hollywood (1920-1950), by Julian I. Weinkle; Kendrick, Flight From a Firing Wall, by Marion Murray; Sirmans, Colonial South Carolina: A Political History, 1663-1763, by Michael G. Kammen; McCormick, The Second American Party System: Party Formation in the …


Joseph E. Brown And Florida's New South Economy, Derrell C. Roberts May 2021

Joseph E. Brown And Florida's New South Economy, Derrell C. Roberts

Florida Historical Quarterly

The present day economy of Florida is rooted in the post-Civil War New South era of American history. The first wealth acquired in the tourist trade and citrus production came to Florida in this period. Governor Joseph E. Brown of Georgia, along with many other Americans North and South, was amassing at this time a sizeable personal fortune in various enterprises that ranged from agriculture and real estate to railroads, banking, and mineral enterprises. On several occasions, he visited Florida, always keenly observing the economy of the state. Governor Brown’s political career was spread over the years from the 1840s …


Lieutenant John T. Mclaughlin: Guilty Or Innocent?, Nell L. Weidenbach May 2021

Lieutenant John T. Mclaughlin: Guilty Or Innocent?, Nell L. Weidenbach

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Florida Squadron, based on Key Biscayne and Indian Key during the Second Seminole War, was a small but highly effective naval group whose part in bringing hostilities to a close has remained in relative obscurity for over a century. Furthermore, the youthful and courageous commander of this squadron, Lieutenant John T. McLaughlin, has been relegated to the fine print of an occasional footnote. The sparse and very brief paragraphs allotted to him all too frequently concentrate on his fiscal extravagances and his drinking excesses, with dark intimations of corruption and cruelty. The paragraphs which follow are designed to bring …


First Campaign Of The Second Seminole War, George C. Bittle May 2021

First Campaign Of The Second Seminole War, George C. Bittle

Florida Historical Quarterly

There was no one basic cause of the Second Seminole War which began in Florida in December 1835. Major General T. S. Jesup, a regular army officer who served in Florida during the war, said that the Indian attacks were primarily the result of white efforts to secure Negroes held by the Seminoles. Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri believed the oppressive and intriguing nature of federal Indian supervision was to blame. Major General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, who served briefly in Florida early in 1836, thought that the Florida conflict was an example of border warfare. Mrs. Ellen Call Long, …


Fort King: A Brief History, Eloise R. Ott May 2021

Fort King: A Brief History, Eloise R. Ott

Florida Historical Quarterly

Within the eastern residential section of Ocala is the site of Fort King. Probably more has been written of this military outpost than of any Florida fortification of its time. Yet long overlooked in official files in Washington is the scarcely known story of its erection - letters which tell of its plan, its buildings, and of problems resulting from the frugality of a government insistent upon a stringent economy of expenditure.


Oldsmar For Health, Wealth, Happiness, Glenn A. Niemeyer May 2021

Oldsmar For Health, Wealth, Happiness, Glenn A. Niemeyer

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Florida real estate boom of the mid-1920s brought unparalleled publicity to Florida. From Jacksonville to Key West city streets were clogged with cars and trucks bearing northern license plates. Swamps were drained and lots on “Venetian canals” were offered for public sale at fantastic prices. Elaborate advertising campaigns, boasting such names as William Jennings Bryan, attempted to lure the Northerner away from snow and ice and into the “Sunshine State.” According to Frederick Lewis Allen, it was “the most delirious fever of real-estate speculation which had attacked the United States in ninety years.”


The Free Negro In Florida Before The Civil War, Russell Garvin May 2021

The Free Negro In Florida Before The Civil War, Russell Garvin

Florida Historical Quarterly

Freedom for negroes in a society where race was the only qualification for slavery was at best an anomaly and at worst an illusion. In either case though, freedom survived alongside slavery. Florida first acquired free Negroes early in the seventeenth century. In 1704 the Spanish governor, Zuniga, opened the territory to fugitive slaves from British plantations to the North. Thus established, potential liberty across the border tempted Carolina blacks and tormented their white owners. It was hoped that the colonization of Georgia would serve as a buffer region to prevent the escape of slaves to Florida. Carolina benefited, but …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 46, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Contents Of Volume Xlvi, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Contents Of Volume Xlvi, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 46


Contributors, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

A listing of contributors to this issue


Historical News, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Historical News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notice of the Annual Meeting, Florida Conference of College Teachers of History, local historical societies


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Holmes, Gayoso: The Life of a Spanish Governor in the Mississippi Valley, 1789-1799, by Helen Hornbeck Tanner; Posey, Religious Strife on the Southern Frontier, by Lefferts A. Loetscher; Van Every, Disinherited: The Lost Birthright of the American Indian, by Frank Laumer; Dew, Ironmaker to the Confederacy: Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Iron Works, by Clement Eaton; Somers, The Southern States Since the War: 1870-1871, by Joseph D. Cushman, Jr.; Weltner, Southerner, by Mary Elizabeth Massey; Smith et al., Diamond Anniversary Faculty Essays, by Doak S. Campbell; Beck, On Teaching History in Colleges and Universities, by Gilbert L. …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Bigelow, Frontier Eden: The Literary Career of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, by Frank G. Slaughter; Rush, The Battle of Pensacola, March 9 to May 8, 1781: Spain’s Final Triumph Over Great Britain in the Gulf of Mexico, by Jane de Grummond; Martin, Eternal Spring: Man’s 10,000 Years of History at Florida's Silver Springs, by Donald W. Curl; Massola, The Wonderful Life of Angelo Massari; An Autobiography, by O. Z. Tyler; Gibson, Spain in America, by Donald Worcester; McDermott, The French in the Mississippi Valley, by Robert L. Gold; De Vorsey, The Indian Boundary in the Southern Colonies, 1763- 1775, …


Black Belt Political Crisis: The Savage-James Lynching, 1882, Edward C. Williamson May 2021

Black Belt Political Crisis: The Savage-James Lynching, 1882, Edward C. Williamson

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1868 and again in 1872, Florida’s Republican Party triumphed over a predominantly ex-Confederate Democratic opposition. The Republican majorities were greatly enhanced by the political organization of the Black Belt. Chief among the political organizers was carpetbagger Dennis Eagan, a native of Ireland, whose particular bailiwick was Madison County and whose political organization survived the debacle of 1876 and the demise of Reconstruction. As late as 1880, Eagan was still delivering sizeable majorities to Republican candidates when in most of the rest of Florida the party was becoming dormant. That majority, for the most part Negroes, was in effect keeping …


Billy Bowlegs (Holata Micco) In The Civil War (Part Ii), Kenneth W. Porter May 2021

Billy Bowlegs (Holata Micco) In The Civil War (Part Ii), Kenneth W. Porter

Florida Historical Quarterly

Elias Rector as an ardent partisan of the Confederacy, must have particularly wished in subsequent years that his report of Billy Bowleg’s death had been more than just a rumor, for Bowlegs was one of the principal chiefs of the Five Civilized Tribes who supported the Union in the Civil War. Although a number of Seminole chiefs, along with representatives of all the other Civilized Tribes, were bullied or cajoled into signing a treaty with the Confederacy, before the war was over it was estimated that two-thirds of the Seminole Indians and practically all their Negroes were within the Union …


Federal Expedition Against Saint Marks Ends At Natural Bridge, Edwin C. Bearss May 2021

Federal Expedition Against Saint Marks Ends At Natural Bridge, Edwin C. Bearss

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the last year of the Civil War, the Union forces took advantage of their seapower to carry the conflict to sections of Florida that had heretofore escaped the ravages of war. Operating from bases which they had seized along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of the state, Union columns would strike deep into the interior and fall back before the Confederates could rally a force strong enough to intervene. Raiding parties were likewise put ashore from transports. If they ran into serious opposition, the raiders would fall back to the beach, where they would be covered by the great …


Election Of 1870 And The End Of Reconstruction In Florida, Ralph L. Peek May 2021

Election Of 1870 And The End Of Reconstruction In Florida, Ralph L. Peek

Florida Historical Quarterly

William Dunnington Bloxham was the first Democrat to win a high elective office in Florida following Congressional Reconstruction. Just twenty-eight months after the end of military rule in the state this native Florida conservative was elected lieutenant governor. However, he was denied the fruits of victory for more than eighteen months. After tedious litigation he was finally awarded the office by the Florida Supreme Court and was inaugurated June 3, 1872.


Journey To The Wilderness: Two Travelers In Florida, 1696-1774, Mary S. Mattfield May 2021

Journey To The Wilderness: Two Travelers In Florida, 1696-1774, Mary S. Mattfield

Florida Historical Quarterly

The eastern coast of the State of Florida is today heavily populated. From Jupiter Inlet north to the Georgia state line, vacation resorts and permanent communities front the Atlantic all the way. It is not easy to visualize this shore as wilderness through which a traveler could make his way only with the greatest difficulty, a cruel wilderness of burning desert and freezing exposure, of lacerating thorns and shells, and of near starvation. It is still harder to imagine the traveler on this coast beset, not only by natural perils, but also by the menace of hostile, even cannibalistic Indian …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 45, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


Contributors, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

A listing of contributors to this issue


Director's Meeting, December 3, 1966, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Director's Meeting, December 3, 1966, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes from the Directors meeting


Historical News, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Historical News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notice of the Annual Meeting, Florida Conference of College Teachers of History, local historical societies


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Robinson, The First Coming to America of the Book of Common Prayer, Florida, July 1565, by Michael V. Gannon; deCoste, True Tales of Old St. Augustine, by Theodore Pratt; Manucy, Florida’s Menendez: Captain General of the Ocean Sea, by M. Adele Francis Gorman; Scarborough, The Overseer Plantation Management in the Old South, by William Warren Rogers; Dos Passos, The Shackles of Power: Three Jeffersonian Decades, by Franklin A. Doty; Tebbel, The Compact History of the Indian Wars, by John K. Mahon; Capers, Occupied City: New Orleans Under the Federals, 1862-1865, by Jerrell H. Shofner; Tompkins (ed.), D-Days at …


A Footnote On Rene Laudionniere, Charles E. Bennett May 2021

A Footnote On Rene Laudionniere, Charles E. Bennett

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Fort Caroline National Memorial, a facility of the National park Service near Jacksonville, includes the reconstructed sixteenth century fort and an interpretive museum, the latter containing priceless American and European artifacts. Fort Caroline, established by the French in 1564 under the leadership of Rene Laudonniere, was then the only European settlement in the territory which is now the United States. It was conquered in 1565 by Spanish forces under Pedro Menendez d’Aviles, who founded Saint Augustine, the country’s oldest city.


Suwannee River Steamboating, E. A. Mueller May 2021

Suwannee River Steamboating, E. A. Mueller

Florida Historical Quarterly

Stephen Collins Foster's famous song, “Way Down Upon the Suwannee River,” has probably done more than anything else to elevate this relatively minor Florida river to a position of fame that it otherwise would not have achieved. Now the official state song of Florida, it was written in 1851 while Foster was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He had originally decided to title it, “Way Down Upon The Pee Dee River,” but fortunately he changed his mind, and, as the story goes, examined a map and discovered the name of the little-known Florida river. Foster had certainly not seen the Suwannee when …


Florida's Golden Age Of Racing, Alice Strickland May 2021

Florida's Golden Age Of Racing, Alice Strickland

Florida Historical Quarterly

The honor of being “the first man to sit behind the controls of a self-propelled road vehicle,” goes to a French army engineer, Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, who in the 1760s designed a monstrous steam carriage to transport artillery. Cugnot’s vehicle was so massive and unwieldy that it knocked over the wall of a courtyard while being tested, and on another occasion turned over on the streets of Paris. Its top speed was from two to six miles per hour.


Claude L'Engle, Florida Muckraker, Joel Webb Eastman May 2021

Claude L'Engle, Florida Muckraker, Joel Webb Eastman

Florida Historical Quarterly

The first decade of the twentieth century has been dubbed the “Era of the Muckrakers.” These were the years when the great muckraking journalists - Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, and Lincoln Steffens -were writing their famous exposures of trusts, railroads, and government corruption in the celebrated national muckraking magazines - McClure’s, Cosmopolitan, and American. Historical studies delving into this phenomenal concentration of reform writers have covered quite adequately its various aspects and impacts on the national level, but they fail to suggest that there might have been journalists and journals on the state and local level who could also …


Billy Bowlegs (Holata Micco) In The Seminole Wars (Part I), Kenneth W. Porter May 2021

Billy Bowlegs (Holata Micco) In The Seminole Wars (Part I), Kenneth W. Porter

Florida Historical Quarterly

If a group of informed Americans were asked to name a Seminole chief, it is likely that most of them would reply “Osceola.” If asked to recall a second Florida Indian, at least a majority of those responding would name “Billy Bowlegs.” The second choice would be more accurate, for Osceola was a Seminole only by adoption - being by birth a Red Stick Creek from Georgia or Alabama who came to Florida at about the age of ten. He was not a chief by hereditary right, whereas Billy Bowlegs, to use his common white-man’s nickname, was what an army …