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Listen: The Folk Program"Captain" Mansfield, center, telling a tale of the Seminole War at his home near Lake Monroe.
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Florida Book Images, Demorest's family magazine Vol 28, no 4 (Feb 1892), Call# Oversize 975_9 M821
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L-R: Grant, unidentified woman with child, Captain & Mrs. Mansfield, two unidentified guests.
Accompanying note: "The captain was soon deep in reminiscences of the Seminole War, some thrilling enough. He told of the Creek Indian who was taken by the Government when a baby, educated among the whites, and finally sent to West Point. At the breaking-out of the Seminole War a regiment of friendly Creeks was raised, and he was made its colonel. One day the army came to a stream, shoulder deep, while on the other side muzzles of rifles pointed from every tree. The Creek regiment was ordered to cross. It refused. The colonel, with all his West Point fear of dishonor, exhorted his men to follow him. They stood motionless. Turning from them he forded the stream alone, to his death."
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