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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: March 20, 2011
Caption: Dade Battlefield
Additional Description: The scene of the ambush remained deserted for seven weeks. Finally, on February 20, 1836, an expedition under General Gains arrived here, identified the bodies, and gave them proper burial with military rites, placing officers' bodies on the east side of the trail, and the enlisted men in two graves within the redoubt. The small cannon was retrieved from a nearby pond in which the Seminoles had thrown it. They mounted it muzzle down, as a monument to the dead. Almost six years later, on August 15, 1842, the officers and men of the army contributed funds to pay for a second interment; and Dade's silent command now rests in the National Cemetery at St. Augustine.
Submitted: March 26, 2011, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p148091
File Size: 0.196 Megabytes

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