Life was hardly easy at any of the three forts. Between 1839 and 1842, the year the Second Seminole War ended, 14 Third Artillery soldiers died, five from battle wounds, three from diarrhea ...

In February 1858, Lt. Charles H. Webb of Company E, First Artillery, took command at Fort Jupiter during the final months of the Third Seminole War. The conflict was declared over by the U.S ...

Though Fort Christmas was only used for a handful ... the Seminole Tribe continued until 1858 with the end of the Third Seminole War. From the perspective of the tribe, the story reads a little ...

The stretch of forts constructed under Maj. Gen. Twiggs’ command were abandoned only a year after opening. In 1856, during the Third Seminole War, Fort Hamer was once again used in service ...

The young beachcomber discovered remains of the third and last Fort Lauderdale, which was built during the Second Seminole War in the 1830s. These days, Fort Lauderdale's roots are buried so deep ...

The Seminoles attacked and wiped out a U.S. Army column moving between forts. 108 out of 110 soldiers died in the fighting. The Second Seminole War was on. This Seminole War would be the hardest ...

The Army also built new forts. By August 1841 ... the Florida wilds when warfare finally ended in a draw after a Third Seminole War in 1858. Coacoochee, then 49, had died in 1857 in Mexico.

It may be named for Billy Bowlegs, but it was Oscen Tustenuggee who served as the tactical mastermind of the Third Seminole War. Using a small ... homestead near modern Fort Meade in June 1856.

It led to the Third Seminole War, 1855-58. Bowlegs and his followers ... Billy Bowlegs Park in east Fort Myers bears his name.

who later led the Union's Army of the Potomac to victory at Gettysburg during the Civil War, also helped build two other area forts to help link Tampa with Fort Pierce before the Third Seminole ...