Florida Historical Quarterly Volume 39 Issue 4 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 39, Article 1 Issue 4 1960 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 39, Issue 4 Florida Historical Society
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[email protected]. Recommended Citation Society, Florida Historical (1960) "Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 39, Issue 4," Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 39 : Iss. 4 , Article 1. Available at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol39/iss4/1 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 39, Issue 4 THE ADVENT OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR IN FLORIDA, 1898 by WILLIAM J. SCHELLINGS N FEBRUARY 1, 1898, the Jacksonville Times Union and Citizen angrily denounced General Nelson Miles for what it termed an attempt to waste the taxpayers’ money. Miles had appeared before a Congressional committee with a plea for funds with which to build fortifications around Washington. The Jack- sonville editor declared that there was “no war in sight,” and that the money might better be spent on the construction of an intra- coastal waterway, a project already looming large in the minds of many Floridians. His denial of any need for defenses was merely another manner of expressing his stubborn opposition to anything that might encourage people to think that war with Spain might result from the Cuban crisis.