THIS DAY IN THE HISTORY OF THE SUNSHINE STATE (Post appears one day before the actual date) MARCH 6 1836 As Osceola and a band of his followers were negotiating with General Edmund P. Gaines at Fort Izard, General Duncan Clinch approached with troops and unaware that a parley was going on, fired on the Seminoles, dispersing their numbers. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Lamont_Clinch 1837 A peace treaty was signed by Jumper, Holalatoochee (Davy), Yaholoochee (Cloud), Hoeth-lee-mat-tee and John Ca-wy-ya, Seminole chieftains, at Fort Drane. Terms specified that all hostilities would cease immediately and that the followers of these individuals would be sent to the Indian Territory (Oklahoma). Within a few days, some 700 Seminoles were gathered near Fort Brooke (Tampa) in preparation for departure. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Seminole_War 1861 The Palatka Guards, a volunteer detachment of about 300 men, left for Fernandina as ordered by Governor Madison Starke Perry. 1861 Braxton E. Bragg, a Mississippi planter, West Point graduate, and Mexican War Veteran, was named to command the Confederate forces in Pensacola. He was a brigadier general. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braxton_Bragg 1862 The U.S.S. Pusuit today captured the schooner Anna Belle off Apalachicola. 1865 The Federal attempt to capture Tallahassee was thwarted today by a ragtag collection of Confederate troops, soldiers on leave or recuperating from medical problems, and cadets from the West Florida Seminary (now Florida State University), at Natural Bridge, about twenty miles south of the city. Despite a considerable numerical advantage, the Federal troops could not overcome the Confederates’ use of natural defenses to reach the city. Following the failure of this Union attempt, Federal troops withdrew to St. Marks. Tallahassee remained the only Confederate capital east of the Mississippi to escape capture and occupation by Union forces during the Civil War. Two Federal efforts to cross natural Bridge were repelled this morning. When Confederate reinforcements arrived, the Union commander ordered his troops to retreat to the safety of the naval vessels at anchor near St. Mark’s lighthouse. Federal losses in the Battle of natural Bridge were put at 21 killed, 89 wounded, and 38 missing. Confederate authorities reported 3 killed, 22 wounded, and none missing. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Natural_Bridge 1933 Chicago mayor Anton Cermak died of wounds inflicted when an assassin attempted to kill President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on February 15 in Miami. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Cermak 1947 Dick Pope, Jr., became the first known person to water ski barefoot on Lake Eloise at Cypress Gardens. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Pope,_Jr.
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