“The first war on slavery was not the Civil War, it was the Seminole Wars,” said Guy Bachmann, president of the Loxahatchee Battlefield Preservationists. His group is responsible for the ...

This is the first of two columns looking at Tallahassee’s decision to drop Andrew Jackson as the leading symbol of its annual ... the sidelines during the Civil War. But, let’s be real.

DADE CITY — The Dade Massacre, a battle in which more than 100 U.S. soldiers were killed in an ambush on Dec. 23, 1835, is widely considered the start of the Second Seminole War. But some ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Some in eastern Iowa had the opportunity to see what it was like to live during the Civil War. It was part of the Seminole Valley Farm’s annual Reflections of the ...

For, like the Civil War 20 years later, Americans died on both sides in the Seminole Wars," Smith said. In 1842, the soldiers and officers were re-interred from locations around the state into ...

Last week, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu oversaw the removal of four Confederate monuments. It was just the latest chapter in the contentious battle over the official display of Confederate ...

Oops. The Sun's editorial on Memorial Day solemnly recounts, war-by-war, the fatalities of America's armed forces. But it left out that war which was fought closest ...

Reid said, "the idea of putting up (Confederate) monuments actually didn’t happen right after the Civil War. It happened during the 1960s." She added that Confederate symbols were political ...

As President John Tyler’s new administration reevaluated the Army’s conduct of the Second Seminole War in the ... shortly after the start of the Civil War. He was promoted to general following ...