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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1865., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Indians or search for Indians in all documents.
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Hemma Micco, or John Jumper.
--We have recently been put in possession of some facts with regard to this Indian--the principal chief of the Seminole nation — which cannot be otherwise than interesting to our readers.
He is, at present, a colonel in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States, and commands a regiment of Indians, composed principally of Seminoles.
Considerably over six feet in height, as straight as an arrow, and as graceful and light-footed as the deer which feed upon the prairies of his western home, he looks every inch the soldier and the chief.
He is, withal, as gentle as a woman, as brave as the bravest, able in council, influential with his people, a pure patriot, and thoroughly devoted to the cause of the South.
His name should become a household word with the citizens of the Confederate States.
Having seen a copy of his "talk" to Colonel S. S. Scott, commissioner of Indian affairs, at Fort Washita, 9th October last, we give an extract.
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