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Private, 3rd Artillery Regiment ~ Florida,1836

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The Second Seminole War began on December 28, 1835, when a force of Seminole warriors ambushed and annihilated a U.S. Army detachment of 110 soldiers in Florida. The soldiers were en route to forcibly remove the Seminoles from their homeland. During the long and difficult war in wilderness and swamps, the soldiers of the four artillery regiments fought mostly as infantry. This private of the 3rd Artillery Regiment wears the winter fatigue uniform of light blue kersey wool with the yellow lace and brass buttons of the artillery branch. THe cap is the M1833 folding leather forage cap which the men wore while sleeping, "always buckled... under the chin... to keep out of our ears, earwigs, centipedes, cockroaches, etc." His accoutrements consist of the M1828 cartridge box and bayonet scabbard on buff (white) belts, along with a haversack and wood canteen. He is armed with the Model 1816 .69 caliber smoothbore flintlock musket and socket bayonet.

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