... that was honorable is now ancient and almost forgotten. This was a brass gun about two and a half feet long, said to have been used in the Everglades in the first Florida or Seminole war by General Jackson nearly a hundred years ago. Because of this it bore the name Old Hickory. In later years it was mounted as a ship's gun on the Kate Hastings, one of the vessels of Henry Hastings of Medford. St...