Abstract
One who would write again of the Dade massacre, ninety-one years after its occurrence, must forego the expectation of discovering any great wealth of original data, and content himself in the main with the assembling of facts already published, and the elimination of more or less doubtful detail that has crept into former narratives, in an effort to bring into stronger relief a more or less neglected story of the American soldier’s courage and fidelity unto death. Every school-child has been taught the story of the Alamo, a tragedy enacted a scarce two months after the massacre of the Dade command, and of the slaughter of Custer’s cavalrymen forty years later. But even Florida histories have not given full prominence to this disaster of territorial days, histories of the United States scarcely mention it, and the story is not to be found in any encyclopedia.
Recommended Citation
Roberts, Albert Hubbard
(1926)
"The Dade Massacre,"
Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 5:
No.
3, Article 5.
Available at:
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol5/iss3/5
