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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.
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.
I N the beginning of January, 1836, the inhabitants of New Orleans received tidings from Florida of a very alarming and distressing nature. An able and brave, but unscrupulous chieftain, named Powell, had been for some time suspected of harboring designs to prevent the removal of the Seminole Indians, beyond the Mississippi, according to treaty. For this or some such cause, Powell was arrested and thrown into double irons, at Fort King, by General Thompson, the Indian agent. He was soon released
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