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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter II (search)
a and the Seminole nation. A new policy was soon inaugurated, which had for its object to establish a complete line of posts across the State from Jupiter to Lake Okeechobee, and thence westward to the gulf, so as more securely to confine the Seminoles within the Everglade region, although, so far as I know, nobody then wanted thecupation of Fort Jupiter, and the construction of a new post there, reopening the old military road of General Jesup and building a block-house on the bank of Lake Okeechobee, similar work to be undertaken from the other shore of the lake westward. The work was commenced about midwinter of 1854-5, and it was my privilege to do it.e up that pest-house at Jupiter and moved the command back to Capron. So far as I know, Fort Jupiter was never again occupied, and I think the block-house on Lake Okeechobee was never completed. At all events, as good luck would have it, I got through with my part of the work and was ordered out of Florida before the Seminoles f
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
y on trade in, 373; question of the State Constitution, 373-376; provisional government, 376, 377; S. resigns command in, 377; appointment of Provisional Governor Holden, 377 North Dakota, obstruction of railroads in, 512 Northern Ohio Democrat, the (of Toledo), cited, 293-295 Northern Pacific Railroad, military protection on the line of the, 510-512 O Oahu, a trial to, 432 Ohio, possibilities of Hood's invading, 305 Ohio River, fears of Hood's reaching, 295, 300 Okeechobee, Lake, military operations at, 23-25 Olley's Creek, Cox forces the passage of, 441 Olney, Atty.-Gen. Richard, report of, cited, 493; approves S.'s order of May 25, 1894, 509 Omaha, military station at, 454; S. at, 509 Oneco, Wis., S. teaches school at, 2 One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana Volunteers, a young straggler from the, 155, 156 Opdycke, Maj.-Gen. Emerson, in battle of Franklin, 177-181, 229; the meed of praise due to, 179-181 Oregon, visit of Sherman and S. to, 4