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A
CORRECT AND AUTHENTIC

N A R R A T I V E

OF THE
INDIAN   WAR   IN   FLORIDA,
WITH A
D E S C R I P T I O N
OF
MAJ.   DADE’S   MASSACRE,
AND AN
ACCOUNT OF THE EXTREME SUFFERING,
FOR WANT OF PROVISIONS, OF THE ARMY—HAVING BEEN
OBLIGED TO EAT HORSES’ AND DOGS’ FLESH, &c. &c.
———
BY CAPT. JAMES BARR.
———

NEW YORK:
J. NARINE, PRINTER, 11 WALL ST.
1836.

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NARRATIVE
OF THE
SEMINOLE WAR IN FLORIDA.

IN the beginning of January, 1836, the inhabitants of New Orleansreceived tidings from Florida of a very alarming and distressing nature.An able and brave, but unscrupulous chieftain, named Powell, had beenfor some time suspected of harboring designs to prevent the removal ofthe Seminole Indians, beyond the Mississippi, according to treaty. Forthis or some such cause, Powell was arrested and thrown into doubleirons, at Fort King, by General Thompson, the Indian agent. He was soonreleased: the head chief of the tribe, Attemottely, (I know not if Ispell his name properly) pledging himself that Powell should raise nodisturbances. Powell repaid him with the blackest ingratitude: he was nosooner free from his confinement, than he with a party of his warriors,killed Attemottely, who was in favor of fulfilling the terms of thetreaty, and thus obtained for himself the consequence he now enjoys inthe nation. Soon after this, Dalton, the carrier of the mail from TampaBay to Fort King, was murdered, and his body found in the woods a fewmiles from Fort Brooke. Next came the murder of the Indian agent,General Thompson, and several of the officers of Fort King. This wassoon followed by the massacre of Major Dade’s command, and theengagement of General Clinch, on the Ouithlacouchy. The houses of theinhabitants were also burned, their plantations destroyed, theirproperty plundered, and they themselves, were, in many instancesmurdered. On receipt of these tidings, the citizens of New Orleans helda meeting, at which it was unanimously resolved to raise a regiment indefence of their suffering friends in Florida.{4}

Gen. Persifor F. Smith volunteered his services as Colonel, and Mr.Lawson, as Lieut. Colonel: the latter gentleman, the head physician ofthe United States, has since proved that the profession of arms is notinconsistent with the duties of a follower of Æsculapius. The enlistmentwas commenced on the 24th January, and a body of seven hundred men wasquickly raised. The citizens, with their usual liberality andpatriotism, supplied the troops with comfortable quarters, till the 3dof February. Each intervening day the regiment was inspected in theCustom House yard: on the 2nd February the troops received theiruniform, blankets and other necessaries, and on the 3rd were mustered inthe Barrack yard. Louisiana h

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