Memoir to accompany map of military operations in Florida
Title:
Memoir to accompany map of military operations in Florida
Publication Information:
Dade City, Fla. : Seminole Wars Historic Foundation, 2007.
Physical Description:
20 p. : port. ; 22 cm. + 1 map.
Series:
Seminole Wars Historic Foundation. Pamphlet series ; Vol. 1, no. 3
General Note:
Reprint. Dr. Joe Knetsch found the Linnard Memoir and map and provided the Seminole Historic Wars Foundation with a preliminary typescript. The typescript was refined and retyped for editing.
Contents:
Introduction -- Transmittal letter -- Memoir --Statement of posts established in Florida --Afterword -- End notes -- Seminole Wars reading list -- Books published by Seminole Wars Historic Foundation and the University of Tampa Press -- Map accompanying.
Abstract:
On November 21, 1836, T.B. Linnard was appointed aide-de-camp to Brevet Maj. Gen Thomas Sidney Jesup, with the responsibility to assist him in his duties as Quartermaster General, to transmit orders and collect information. April 1837 at Ft. Brooke, Jesup wrote to J.R. Poinsett, Sec. of War, that he had very little information of the interior of Florida, and that he had directed his Aid de Camp, Lieut. Linnard, to collect and arrange such data as are accessible ... . -- Introd., p. 2
