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- GLC#
- GLC04933
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1839/04/08
- Author/Creator
- Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850
- Title
- to William Davenport
- Place Written
- Fort White, Florida
- Pagination
- 3 p. : address : docket ; Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Discusses efforts to remove the Seminole Indians from Florida during the second Seminole War. Mentions General Macomb's plan to negotiate. Comments on his own plan to canvas central Florida to flush the Seminoles out of the everglades. Asserts "that there are two objects in view of prosecuting this war - to wit: the protection of the [American] inhabitants and to drive the Indians from the country."
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