The origin, progress, and conclusion of the Florida war : to which is appended a record of officers, non-commissioned offices, musicians, and privates of the USArmy, Navy, and Marine Corps, who were killed in battle, or died of disease : as also the names of officers who were distinguished by brevets, and the names of others recommended : together with the orders for collecting the remains of the dead in Florida, and the ceremony of interment at StAugustine, East Florida, on the fourteenth day of August, 1842 . t blow. He belonged to the Red Sticktribe of Indians, a branch of the Creeks, and w
The origin, progress, and conclusion of the Florida war : to which is appended a record of officers, non-commissioned offices, musicians, and privates of the USArmy, Navy, and Marine Corps, who were killed in battle, or died of disease : as also the names of officers who were distinguished by brevets, and the names of others recommended : together with the orders for collecting the remains of the dead in Florida, and the ceremony of interment at StAugustine, East Florida, on the fourteenth day of August, 1842 . t blow. He belonged to the Red Sticktribe of Indians, a branch of the Creeks, and was born on theChattahoochee river, Georgia, in the year 1804. His fathersname was William Powell, an Englishman, who for forty yearshad been a trader in the nation, and whose wife was an Indianwoman. In the year 1808, when a feud occurred among- theCreeks, they separated by mutual consent, she preferring to go toFlorida, when a division of the family took place. The fatherretained two daughters; the mother and the boy, then four yearsold, settled in the vicinity of the Okefenoke Swamp. Soon after,she was again married, when, with her child and husband, she * The black drink is used by the head-men of the Seminole nation, preparatory to theassembling of important councils. It is drank three times a day, for seven consecutivedays. It is a tea composed of a concoction of star-grass, shppery elm, and palmettoleaves. This process, it is thought, cleanses the system, and gives to the mind wisdomand Negro Abraham.
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