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Title: Indian history for young folks
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel), 1828-1885 Dowd, Francis Joseph, 1876-
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Wars
Publisher: New York London : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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o took part in this expedition, at the close of his journalsays: Thus ended the Big Cypress campaign like all others; drove theIndians out, broke them up, taught them we could go where they could;men and officers worn down; two months in water, packs on our backs;hard times; trust they are soon to end. The only reward we ask is theending of the Florida War.1 Worths sagacity enabled him to see that fighting these Indians underevery disadvantage was not the best way, nor the only way to effect theirremoval. He therefore used every means in his power to influence themby conciliatory talks, sent to them by leading chiefs who were prisonersor who had voluntarily surrendered. This course was effectual. He de-clared to a brother officer that there was more true patriotism, sense, anddecency in ridding our country of this incubus in a quiet way, than in cut-ting down a solitary Indian who may have been guilty of the crime ofdefending his own country in his own way. While not inferior to Jack-
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.BILLY BOWLECiS. WAR WITH THE SEMKSOLES OF FLORIDA. 423 son as a soldier, Worth was far superior to him in comprehension andstatesmanship. Of him it can be truly said, He deserved well of hiscountry. Finding that no hiding-place was secure, and that with a vigilant andenergetic commander like Worth to deal with they had no further hope,parties of the Indians sued for peace, came in, and were from time to timeforwarded to Arkansas. Early in 18tt2 General Worth made a final effort to capture Ilalleck-Tustenuggee and his band. This cunning and vindictive chief had hithertobaffled every detachment sent after him. By birth a Micasaukie, and atthis time about thirty-five years of age, this savage, apart from his in-tense love of country, seems not to have possessed a single redeemingtrait. Adroit in his movements, bold and intrepid in action, he had madethe pioneer as well as the army feel that he was no ordinary foe. He wassix feet two inches in height, with a slight, sinewy frame, well fo

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