AN HISTORICAL SKETCH.


Worth took command in 1841, and inaugurated the policy
of pushing the campaign in summer as well as winter, and
of tracking them to their swamp fastnesses, was their spirit
quenched or the vigor of their resistance broken. When
the deadly conflict at length ended, most of the Indians
who had escaped death had been transported beyond the
Mississippi, and only an insignificant remnant of the once
powerful Seminole tribe was left in a reservation at the
southern end of the peninsula, where their descendants still
support themselves frugally by hunting, fishing, and the
raising of cattle.
 But, though triumphant in the end, the United States
bad paid dearly for the victory. Six or seven generals had
been employed with varying degrees of ill fortune, the lives
of fourteen hundred and sixty-six regular soldiers, of whom
two hundred and fifteen were officers, had been lost, and the
expenditures had amounted to upward of nineteen million
dollars, a vastly larger sum then than now. And worse than


all, perhaps,
generation.
ment of the
pations had
families had
grants were
of life were
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the growth of Florida had been set back fully a
Plantations that dated from the earliest settle-
country had been broken up, agricultural occu-
been almost completely suspended, hundreds of
been either butchered or driven off, and immi-
deterred from venturing where the conditions
so precarious. Of the many cruel misfortunes
nrira has been subjected. the Seminole War was


probably the most disastrous in its effects.
 For the later history of Florida-that which has oc-
curred within our own remembrance-we must content our-
selves with a few dates which may be useful for reference,
and for which the last edition of Appletons' "Cyclopaedia"


is our authority.
 Florida was admitted
3d of March, 1845. An
Union was passed on the


into the Union as a State on the
ordinance of secession from the
10th of January, 1861, by a con-


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