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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 20 | 0 | Browse | Search |
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: October 30, 1862., [Electronic resource] | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Seminole Indians
A tribe of Florida Indians, made up of two bands of the Creeks, who withdrew from the main body in 1750, and remnants of tribes who had come in contact with the Spaniards.
The Seminoles were hostile to the Americans during the Revolutionary War and afterwards.
The Creeks claimed them as a part of their natiIndians, made up of two bands of the Creeks, who withdrew from the main body in 1750, and remnants of tribes who had come in contact with the Spaniards.
The Seminoles were hostile to the Americans during the Revolutionary War and afterwards.
The Creeks claimed them as a part of their nation, and included them in a treaty with the United States in 1790; but the Seminoles repudiated it and made war upon the Americans, and affiliated with the Spaniards in 1793.
They were also enemies of the United States in the War of 1812, when they were under Spanish rule.
At that time they were divided into seven clans, and wer coast having hoisted the British flag, two refugee Creek chiefs were enticed on board, one of whom, the Prophet Francis, had lately visited England and ex-
Seminole Indians F0llowing a trail. cited some sympathy there.
These chiefs Jackson hanged.
From St. Mark's Jackson marched against an Indian town on the Suwanee River and