A PRIL 1968 Published by THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF FLORIDA, 1856 THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, successor, 1902 THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, incoporated, 1905 by GEORGE R. FAIRBANKS, FRANCIS P. FLEMING, GEORGE W. WILSON, CHARLES M. COOPER, JAMES P. TALIAFERRO, V. W. SHIELDS, WILLIAM A. BLOUNT, GEORGE P. RANEY. OFFICERS WILLIAM M. GOZA, president HERBERT J. DOHERTY, JR., 1st vice president JAMES C. CRAIG, 2nd vice president PAT DODSON, recording secretary MARGARET L. CHAPMAN, executive secretary SAMUEL PROCTOR, editor D IRECTORS ROBERT H. AKERMAN MILTON D. JONES CHARLES O. ANDREWS, JR. FRANK J. LAUMER MRS. T. O. BRUCE JAMES H. LIPSCOMB, III JAMES D. BRUTON, JR. WILLIAM WARREN ROGERS AUGUST BURGHARD JAMES A. SERVIES MRS. HENRY J. BURKHARDT CHARLTON W. TEBEAU WALTER S. HARDIN JULIAN I. WEINKLE JAMES R. 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THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY VOLUME XLVI APRIL 1968 NUMBER 4 CONTENTS REMBERT WALLACE PATRICK ......... Herbert J. Doherty, Jr....... 305 PATRICK BIBLIOGRAPHY ......................... Edward K. Eckert...... 314 ENCOUNTER BY THE RIVER ........................ Frank Laumer...... 322 MIGRATION INTO FLORIDA OF THE SEMINOLES, 1700-1820 .................................. James W. Covington ..... 340 SECESSION OF FLORIDA FROM THE UNION- A MINORITY DECISION? .................... John F. Reiger .... 358 CROSS-FLORIDA BARGE CANAL, 1927-1968 ...................................... J. Richard Sewell ..... 369 BOOK REVIEWS . 384 HISTORICAL N EWS . 414 DIRECTOR'S MEETING, DECEMBER 2, 1967 ....................... 421 CONTRIBUTORS . 425 COPYRIGHT 1968 by the Florida Historical Society, Tampa, Florida. Second class postage paid at Tampa, Florida, and at additional mailing offices. Printed by Convention Press, Inc., Jacksonville. Florida. i BOOK REVIEWS Patrick and Morris, Florida Under Five Flags, by Charlton W. Tebeau ......................................................................... 384 Jahoda, The Other Florida, by Dena Snodgrass ........................... 385 Wickham, St. Augustine Florida, 1565-1965, by Michael V. Gannon ....................................................................... 386 Damkohler, Estero, Florida, 1882: Memoirs of the First Settler, by Durward Long ............................................................................ 387 Lawson, A New Voyage to Carolina, by John Anthony Caruso ........ 388 Callahan, Flight From the Republic: The Tories of the American Revolution, by Charles L. Mowat ............................................ 390 Bertelson, The Lazy South, by Thomas D. Clark ............................ 392 Gregory and Strickland, Sam Houston With the Cherokees, 1829-1833, by Frank Laumer ......................................................... 395 Ringold, The Role of the State Legislatures in the Confederacy, by Daisy Parker ............................................................................. 395 Sefton, The United States Army and Reconstruction, 1865-1877, by Phillip S. Paludan ............................................. 397 Evans, Ballots and Fence Rails: Reconstruction on the Lower Cape Fear, by Daniel W. Hollis .................................................. 400 Krueger, And Promises to Keep: The Southern Conference for Human Welfare, 1938-1948, by Ralph F. de Bedts ................. 401 Helm, Hurricanes: Weather at its Worst, by Wyatt Blassingame ....... 403 Plowden, Those Amazing Ringlings and Their Circus, by Marian Murray ..................................................................... 405 Tarrant, James Branch Cabell: The Dream and the Reality, by Harry R. Warfel ........................................................................ 407 Roosevelt, I Love A Roosevelt, by Helen Muir .................................... 408 ii REMBERT WALLACE PATRICK by HERBERT J. DOHERTY, JR. N THE FALL OF 1940 a young South Carolinian with a brand- new doctor’s degree in history from the University of North Carolina appeared among the new faculty members at the Uni- versity of Florida in Gainesville. Rembert Wallace Patrick had begun his long and warm association with Florida, its people, and its history. In the small, north Florida college town the youthful historian energetically devoted himself to his work and soon won the devoted following of students and the affection and respect of his colleagues. Though he was a practical, down-to-earth man, he quickly revealed a dry, often irreverent sense of humor. De- spite his newness to the University of Florida, young Professor Patrick was not an inexperienced teacher. He came to Gainesville from Meredith College in North Carolina where he had taught history while completing his Ph.D. degree. Earlier he had been employed for several years in the public schools of South Carolina. Born in Columbia, South Carolina, on June 9, 1909, Rembert Patrick was raised in that state and educated in its public schools. Following the remarriage of his widowed mother, how- ever, he moved with his mother to Poughkeepsie, New York, while in high school and graduated there in 1926 from the Oakwood School. Returning south to North Carolina, he enrolled at Guilford College and received his bachelor’s degree in 1930. After a brief stint as a stock clerk in New York City where, by his own account, he worked in the “china (not expensive) department of the S. S. Kresge Company, he accepted appoint- ment to the staff of the high school in North, South Carolina. There he taught mathematics and doubled as football coach. 1 The young scholar spent the 1933-1934 academic year in Chapel Hill, winning his master’s degree in history from the Uni- versity of North Carolina. He also won the favor of a Connec- ticut Yankee, Eleanor Grace Bangs, whom he had met while 1. “Rembert W. Patrick,” an autobiographical outline in the files of Department of History, University of Florida. The author is indebted to Mrs. Rembert W. Patrick and Rembert W. Patrick, Jr., for aid and advice in the preparation of this article. [ 305 ] 306 FLORIDA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY both worked at a summer resort during their undergraduate days, and in December 1933, they were married. Returning in the same year to North High School, he served for two years as its principal. Following the bent of his intellectual interests, however, he resumed his graduate study in Chapel Hill in 1936 and in 1940 earned his Ph.D. degree in American history un- der the direction of Fletcher M. Green. In the fall of that year, “Pat” and “Egie” with their first-born son, Rembert, Jr., arrived in Gainesville, Florida, counting themselves fortunate that he had received an appointment as assistant professor of social sciences at the University of Florida. Though young Professor Patrick’s appointment for the first ten years of his association with the university was in the department of social sciences, he taught history courses as well as the general education social sciences course, a fairly common procedure at the University of Florida. In 1941, the family was enlarged with the arrival of a daughter, Sharon, and in 1943 the younger son, John, was born. Rembert Patrick showed early promise as a publishing schol- ar. In 1941 his doctoral dissertation, “Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet,” won an award from the United Daughters of the Con- federacy, and upon its publication in 1944 it received the Bohnenberger Award as that year’s best book by a southern- born author. In 1962 it was added to the permanent library of the White House. In Florida, he realized that there was no read- ily-available state history of reliable quality, and arrangements soon developed for a brief volume, Florida Under Five Flags, to be published as the first venture of a new University of Florida Press. 2 As this work progressed, James Miller Leake, head profes- sor of history and political science, entrusted to Professor Patrick a course in Florida history which Leake had initiated. In the course of his work, the South Carolinian quickly discovered that the resources for research in Florida history were scarce and dif- ficult of access. As a matter of fact, the best collection of materials was a private one assembled by P. K. Yonge, longtime member and chairman of the university system’s Board of Control, and his son Julien in Pensacola. As Rembert Patrick pursued this research, he and Julien Yonge became fast friends, and their re- lationship was an