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Florida Volunteers In The War With Spain, 1898, William Schellings Apr 2021

Florida Volunteers In The War With Spain, 1898, William Schellings

Florida Historical Quarterly

For many years the Spanish American War has been referred to as a “Splendid Little War.” John Hay first used the term to describe the war in a letter to his friend Theodore Roosevelt and Teddy, without doubt, fully agreed. Recently Professor Frank Freidel used the same words to title a book concerning that war. Perhaps many of the participants in the Second World War, or the Korean conflict, would also agree that the war with Spain was a comparatively splendid affair as wars go. Imagine a war in which there was no draft, and that was fought largely by …


The Blockade And Fall Of Apalachicola, 1861-1862, Joseph D. Cushman, Jr. Apr 2021

The Blockade And Fall Of Apalachicola, 1861-1862, Joseph D. Cushman, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

President Lincoln proclaimed the blockade of all Confederate ports on April 19, 1861. In order to make the blockade effective, the United States Navy was split into two squadrons: the Atlantic Squadron which was to guard the entire Atlantic coast as far south as Cape Florida; and the Gulf Squadron which was responsible for the vast Gulf coast, an area which extended from Cape Florida to the Mexican border. Early in 1862 the Gulf Squadron was divided again into a West Gulf Squadron and an East Gulf Squadron. The area guarded by the East Gulf Squadron extended from Cape Canaveral …


The English Invasion Of Spanish Florida, 1700-1706, Charles W. Arnade Apr 2021

The English Invasion Of Spanish Florida, 1700-1706, Charles W. Arnade

Florida Historical Quarterly

Though Florida had been discovered by Ponce de Leon in 1513, not until 1565 did it become a Spanish province in fact. In that year Pedro Menendez de Aviles was able to establish a permanent capital which he called St. Augustine. Menendez and successive executives had plans to make St. Augustine a thriving metropolis ruling over a vast Spanish colony that might possibly be elevated to a viceroyalty. Nothing of this sort happened. By 1599 Florida was in desperate straits: Indians had rebelled and butchered the Franciscan missionaries, fire and flood had made life in St. Augustine miserable, English pirates …


The Irony Of Secession, Donal R. Hadd Apr 2021

The Irony Of Secession, Donal R. Hadd

Florida Historical Quarterly

The election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of the United States marked the beginning of active measures for separation in the state of Florida. Throughout the state mass meetings were held to protest the ascendancy of “Black Republicanism.” The term “secession” so truculently advanced by a militant minority since the Compromise of 1850 began to be advanced by an ever increasing number of Floridians inflamed by the spirit of the time.


Two Seminole Treaties: Payne's Landing, 1832, Ft. Gibson, 1833, John K. Mahon Apr 2021

Two Seminole Treaties: Payne's Landing, 1832, Ft. Gibson, 1833, John K. Mahon

Florida Historical Quarterly

The treaty of Moultrie Creek or Camp Moultrie, of 1823, quickly revealed more weaknesses than strengths. Conspicuous among them was the absence of any deadline date by which the Seminoles were expected to be within the boundaries of their reservation. Very shortly it became obvious that the Indians were dissatisfied with the treaty, did not want to move, and were in no hurry to do so. Even after months had passed, still only a few had entered the reservation.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 41, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Memorial: Julien Chandler Yonge, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Memorial: Julien Chandler Yonge, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

On April 25, 1962, Julien Chandler Yonge passed away at his home in Pensacola. Born on January 20, 1879, the son of Philip Keyes and Lucie C. Davis Yonge, Julien Yonge spent most of his life in his native state. For more than a generation he was editor of the Florida Historical Quarterly and a mainstay of the Florida Historical Society. Known to generations of historians for his magnificent collection of Floridiana, remembered with warm affection by all who worked with him, Julien Yonge’s name will always be found where Florida history is written. The memory of this kindly, self-effacing, …


Contents Of Volume Xli, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Contents Of Volume Xli, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 41


Contributors, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contributors to this issue


The Editor's Corner, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

The Editor's Corner, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

In this number we continue the reminiscences of Florida begun in our last issue by the late Jane D. Brush of Michigan, widow of Alanson P. Brush, a pioneer of the automobile industry.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Vicente Manuel de Zespedes and the Restoration of Spanish Rule in East Florida, 1784-1790. By Helen Hornbeck Tanner. (Ann Arbor, University of Michigan [Doctoral Dissertation], 1961. 365 pp.); The British Meet the Seminoles; Negotiations between British Authorities in East Florida and the Indians: 1763-68. Collected and annotated by James W. Covington. Contributions of the Florida State Museum, Social Sciences, Number 7. (Gainesville, University of Florida, 1961. 66 pp. Map, facsimile, notes, and references. $1.00.); Southern Tradition and Regional Progress. By William H. Nicholls. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1960. xviii, 202 pp. Bibliography. $5.00.); The Patriot Chiefs. By …


News And Notes, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

News And Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notes about the Civil War Centennial Commission, local historical societies


A Northerner Reports On Florida: 1866, Joe M. Richardson Apr 2021

A Northerner Reports On Florida: 1866, Joe M. Richardson

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the fall of 1865 Colonel Thomas W. Osborn, Assistant Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau for Florida, decided to divide the State into five districts, and send agents on inspection tours of each. The inspectors were to make full reports on the general condition of the freedmen and the amount of crops being raised. Special notice was to be taken of the proportion of nonproducing members among the ex-slaves, and the number of white and colored schools, scholars, and teachers in each section. In addition, the agents were to gauge the white attitude toward the Union, and determine whether the …


Sea Island Cotton In Ante-Bellum Florida, Jerrell H. Shofner Apr 2021

Sea Island Cotton In Ante-Bellum Florida, Jerrell H. Shofner

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the late 1850’s Florida surpassed Georgia and South Carolina in the production of Sea Island cotton. This development was made possible by three factors: climate, soil, and technological progress. While nature supplied the first two requisites, the latter factor was the result of inventive Floridians who designed and patented cotton gins that made the production of Sea Island cotton profitable. A combination of environment and mechanical development thus enabled Florida to supplant the traditional leaders and become the nation’s largest producer of long staple cotton.


The Treaty Of Moultrie Creek, 1823, John K. Mahon Apr 2021

The Treaty Of Moultrie Creek, 1823, John K. Mahon

Florida Historical Quarterly

A decade before the United States obtained possession of the whole of Florida the Indians had learned to fear Americans. Three times the men of the new nation to the north had invaded the peninsula; two of these invasions had brought ruin to the redmen. The first invasion-during the “Patriot War” of 1811-1813 - had initiated the disintegration of the towns and the agriculture of the Indians, east of the Suwannee River. The second - Andrew Jackson’s campaign in 1818 - had wreaked the same havoc upon those west of the Suwannee. The Florida Indians were never the same after …


The Celestial Railroad To Juno, Nathan D. Shappee Apr 2021

The Celestial Railroad To Juno, Nathan D. Shappee

Florida Historical Quarterly

The topic of this paper is deeply and affectionately imbedded in the early history and folklore of northern Dade County and present day Palm Beach County. Until this present undertaking no attempt at a comprehensive article about the Celestial Railroad has been made. Stray references and short descriptions are found in a wide variety of places but the best of these are in unpublished reminiscences of old-timers and in contemporary newspapers which are not readily accessible to general readers.


William Augustus Bowles And The State Of Muskogee, Lyle N. Mcalister Apr 2021

William Augustus Bowles And The State Of Muskogee, Lyle N. Mcalister

Florida Historical Quarterly

As the eighteenth century approached its end, the decline of the imperial power of Spain was reflected and magnified in the borderland provinces of East and West Florida. In these outposts of empire the hand of authority was weak and resources for defense were almost non-existent. The military establishment consisted of understrength garrisons in the presidios at St. Augustine, San Marcos de Apalache, Mobile, and Pensacola, and the sparsity and dispersion of the population precluded reliance on troops raised locally. Moreover, the Viceroy of Mexico and the Captain General of Cuba, who were responsible for the defense of the northern …


The Editor's Corner, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

The Editor's Corner, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Father Jerome of St. Leo’s Abbey, St. Leo, Florida, sends us an interesting note relating the pro’s and con’s of the dispute centering about the identity of the first Catholic Bishop of Florida, and a document which he assures us provides “a definite silencing of the dispute.” The search for this documentary proof led Father Jerome to the Library of Congress, the Hispanic Society of America, and to the Franciscan archives in Washington - all without success.


Contributors, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contributors to this issue


News And Notes, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

News And Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notice of the annual meeting, college notes, news from local historical societies


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The South in American History. By William B. Hesseltine and David L. Smiley. Second Edition. (Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1960. x, 630 pp. Illustrations, maps, index. $8.00.); The Siege of St. Augustine in 1702. By Charles W. Arnade. University of Florida Monographs: Social Sciences, No. 3. (Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 1959. 67 pp. maps, plates. $2.00.); Hamilton Holt: Journalist, Internationalist, Educator. By Warren F. Kuehl. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1960. ix, 303 pp. plates. $7.50.); Okeechobee Hurricane and the Hoover Dike. By Lawrence E. Will. (Great Outdoors Publishing Company, St. Petersburg, Florida 1961. 110 pp. Illustrations. $3.00.); The Story …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Mississippi in the Confederacy, As They Saw It. Edited by John K. Bettersworth. (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1961. 362 pp. Illustrations, $5.95); Mississippi in the Confederacy, As Seen in Retrospect. Edited by James W. Silver. (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1961. 362 pp. Illustrations, $5.95); The United Colonies of New England, 1643-1690. By Harry M. Ward. (New York: Vantage Press, 1961. 434pp. Plates $4.50.)


The Cotton Mill Campaign In Florida, 1828-1863, Richard W. Griffin Apr 2021

The Cotton Mill Campaign In Florida, 1828-1863, Richard W. Griffin

Florida Historical Quarterly

The manufacturing impulse in the South appeared as early as 1790 when primitive cotton factories were established in Kentucky and South Carolina. In Virginia an association to promote manufactures was launched at Richmond in 1786. This early interest in development of cotton manufactories was not comparable, however, to that which set off the cotton growing craze after the invention of the cotton gin.


The American Loyalists In The Bahama Islands: Who They Were, Thelma Peters Apr 2021

The American Loyalists In The Bahama Islands: Who They Were, Thelma Peters

Florida Historical Quarterly

The American loyalists who moved to the Bahama Islands at the close of the American Revolution were from many places and many walks of life so that classification of them is not easy. Still, some patterns do emerge and suggest a prototype with the following characteristics: a man, either first or second generation from Scotland or England, Presbyterian or Anglican, well-educated, and “bred to accounting.” He was living in the South at the time of the American Revolution, either as a merchant, the employee of a merchant, or as a slave-owning planter. When the war came he served in one …


East Coast Florida Steamboating, 1831-1861, Edward A. Mueller Apr 2021

East Coast Florida Steamboating, 1831-1861, Edward A. Mueller

Florida Historical Quarterly

Transportation facilities have always played a substantial and significant role in the development and settlement of the United States. Likewise, in the early days of Florida’s development, water transportation played a most important part, sailing ships helping to bring in some of the first settlers and visitors. Because Florida is a peninsula for the most part and has water access on most of its boundaries as well as many waterways serving the interior, transportation by water has always loomed large. Sailing vessels, however, have their difficulties not the least of which is the lack of a regular schedule and the …


Joseph E. Brown And The Florida Election Of 1876, Derrell Roberts Apr 2021

Joseph E. Brown And The Florida Election Of 1876, Derrell Roberts

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida means various things to many people. For some it means restored health and for others it has built fortunes, but for Joseph E. Brown it revived a sagging political career. By 1876, Brown had served as Georgia’s Governor for an unprecedented eight year period which included the Civil War era. He had been Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court for nearly two years and earlier had served terms as Superior Court Judge and State Senator. In 1876, Brown was ready to rejoin the Democratic party which he had bolted in 1868 to vote for U.S. Grant for President, …


The Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

The Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes and notes from the annual meeting


Contributors, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contributors to this issue


News And Notes, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

News And Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notice of the annual meeting, Junior Historical Writing Contest, local historical societies


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Confederate Strategy from Shiloh to Vicksburg. By Archer Jones. (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1961. 240 pp. Maps, bibliography, and index. $5.00.); Why the North Won The Civil War. Edited by David Donald. (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1960. xv, 128 pp. Suggested Readings and index. $2.95.); Americans at War, The Development of the American Military System. By T. Harry Williams. (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1960. 139 pp. Illustrations. $3.50.); Marquette Legends. By Francis Borgia Steck. Edited by August Reyling. (New York, Pageant Press, 1960. xxii, 350 pp. Facsimiles, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. …