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FLORIDA GENEROUS
OLD HICKORY
ANUEMINOLES
Modern Jacksonville Reveres
His Memory At Reunion
TO VETERANS
Wednesday, April 29, 1914
Only
fays Out More Money to Sus
tain Old Soldiers .
rhan Any Other Southern State and
Builds Monuments to Memory-
Confederate Reunion May 6, 7, 8, at
Jacksonville. '
Jacksonville, Fla. The State of
Florida pays out more money per
Capita for the. support ot dependent
ex-Confederate soldiers than any oth
er Southern State. This fact should
be sufficient to convince ex-Confeder-ites
everywhere that when they and
ieir descendants .visit Jacksonville
the occasion of the 24th annual
feunion of the United Confederate
feteran's Association that they will
in the hands of their friends. The
bunion will be held May 6, 7, 8.
The handsome total of $600,000 per
Innum is being paid by the state for
lupport of ex-Copfederate pensioners.
rhe average yearly amount paid to
bach person on the pension list, ac
cording to the latest report of the
state Board of Pensions, is 1121.25,
while the average paid to old soldiers
$122.30. Widows of Confederate
soldiers draw an average ot $120 per
unnum. Since the report from which
these figures are taken was made, the
legislature has passed a still more lib
eral pension law, which 'wiM authorize
additional payments of approximately
l!i0,000 a year, making the total $750,-
D00 per annum paid to Confederate
pensioners by the state.
There are 2,633 soldier pensioners
Dn the rolls of the state and 2.227
ridows of Confederates, making a to
tal of 4,860. The fund to support this
pension roll is raised by a tax of four
nills on the assessed property of the
taxpayer.
Florida is not only caring for the
living but the memory of the dead is
also kept green. Throughout the state
landsome Confederate monuments
lave been erected by both public and
irivate means. All told there are
Iwenty, or possibly more, handsome
Spirit of Great Man Militant In Con
federate Reunion City Why Jack
eonville Was Named In Hit Honor.
Jacksonville, Fla. Confederate '61-
diers, the world over, revere the name
of Andrew Jackson, and .In view of the
tact that their next reunion is to be
held in the only city in the South that
was named in honor of that great, and
brave man, his services in treeing
Florida from the blight of Indian bar
barism will be of interest
Jacksonville waa named for Gen.
Andrew Jackson as a compliment and 1
mark of appreciation for services he
rendered to civilization in the Semi-!
nole War. There could have been no!
progress or civilization in Florida but
for the work of Andrew Jackson. Con
ditons in this territory in 1818, nearly
a hundred years ago, demanded the
services of a brave and resolute man.
Gen Jackson was selected by the gov-
emiuuui. as me one man auove ail
others to head the movement against
the Seminole Indians, who had been
terrorizing the territory for several:
years and committing atrocities ot the I
most brutal character.
In March, 1S18, Gen. Jackson was
ordered to the site of the Seminole'
War. He invaded East Florida, and
in a campaign of less than six weeks
crushed these Indians. It is related
-MenSt x f Aral
Bel B jH H
pen. W. H. Sebrlng Jacksonville, Fla.,
Adjutant General Florida Division
United Confederate Veterans.
Confederate monuments in the state,
Ind others are yet to be erected. A
lome for ex-Confederate soldiers is
naintalned at Jacksonville. Last year
be state appropriated $5,000 to the
Confederate soldiers' home in this
ty. Two Confederate monuments
lave been erected here, and a monu-
tent may be dedicated to the Women
If the Confederacy during the coming
leunlon.
This brief exposition of the work
bat Florida is doing for the ex-Con-
federate soldiers, living and dead, is
broof that the people of the state will
Ixtend a warm and generous welcome
the old soldiers and their friends
bn the occasion of the Jacksonville
leunlon Florida, while situated far
louth of the great theater of war of
IMl-'6G, felt the shock of the conflict.
Jacksonville was occupied tour dlffer
lat times by the federals. The pur-
(OSes of this occupancy, according to
fflclal reports on file in archives ot
be War Department, were to keen
be St Johns river open from its
nouth to the head of navigation and
arm the negroes for service in the
frnlon Army. The small Confederate
brce in East Florida in 1868 was com
landed by Oen. Joseph Finegan. On
larch IS, ISIS, Oen. Finegan Issued a
roclamatlon here In which he said:
I feel it my duty as brigadier-genii
commanding this district to Id-
rm the people of the district and of
state that our unscrupulous enemy
ianaea a large force of nearoea.
Ider command of white officers, at
Icksonvllie, under cover of gunboats.
is attempting to fortify the place
as to make It eecure against at.
cks. The purpose of this movement
obvious and need hot be mentioned
direct terms. It is sufficient tn in.
re the whole body of people with a
lewed and sterner purpose of resist-
oe. I therefore call on such of th
ris as can possibly leave th.ir
lee to arm and organise themselves
Ito companies without delay and re-
on to dip
Oen R Ssxton (U. R. A In r.
brt to the War Department dated
Mtch 14, 1813. says: "The object of
is expedition was to occupy Jack-
pvllie and make It the base of opera-
si tor the arming of tea-roes and
curing In this way possesion ot iho
Gen. Bennett H. Young, Louisville, Ky.,
Commander In Chief United Confed
erate Veterans, Who Hold Their Re-,
union at Jacksonville In May.
by historians that in one village, not!
far remove from Jacksonville, he'
found 300 scalps of men, women and
children, many of them still fresh,
hanging on a war pole. Oen. Jaokson
knew tha the Spaniards were in sym
pathy w th the Indians in their attacks 1
on American settlers. After cleaning
up a number of Indian villages he cap-,
tured the Spanish post of St. Marks.'
For this act he was severely censured :
by his government. However, the!
naked fact Is that "Old Hickory" was'
more courageous than the men who
were conducting the affairs of state I
a,t Washington.
Early in May, 1818, Gen. Jackson'
closed his campaign against the Sem-1
inoles in East Florida. He had com
pletely broken their power and runi
them out of the territory. They caused '
no more serious trouble.
During his campaign in East. Florida '
Gen. Jackson obtained satisfactory ev
idence that Spanish officers at Pensa
cola were in' sympathy with the In
dians. He promptly decided to march
against them and teach them a lesson. !
The Spanish governor of West Florida, '
learning of Gen. Jackson's purpose,!
sent him a written protest against his j
Invasion. This protest is now on file:
among the Jackson documents In
charge of the Tennessee Historical
Society at Nashville. The protest was '
delivered to Gen. Jackson near Pensa
cola on May IS, but It had no effect on !
that determined man. In reply he sent
a peremptory demand for the Imme
diate surrender of Pensacola and Bar
rancas. Jackson advanced Immediate
ly on Pensacola and possessed It Two
days later the Barrancas garrison
capitulated, were received as prison
ers of war and sent to Havana
Having thus snatched both East and
West Florida from the Indiana and
Spaniards, Gen. Jackson at once pro
ceeded to establish a provisional gov
ernment under the stars and stripes.
Having accomplished this, he return
ed to Tennessee, then bis home.
In 1821 a number of pioneers held
a meeting here and decided to start
the work of building a town. The vil
lage waa then known as the Cow Ford,
name given to It by the Indians.
After perfecting an organisation, the
Incorporation unfurled the banner of
Jacksonville In honor ot Oen. Jackson,
who had made It possible for white
men to live here.
Whan the Confederate soldiers aad
their friends meet here for the 24th
annual reunion Jacksonville will Im
press them with ail the force of An
drew Jackson It Is now a modern
progressive city of 15,000 population,
one of the thriving business centers ot
the New South. Its varied attractions
will delight all who attead th re
union, and no manor bow tart the
crowd may be, Jacksonville will take
care oi all
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