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Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 68, Number 2 Florida Historical Quarterly Volume 68 Number 2 Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume Article 1 68, Number 2 1989 Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 68, Number 2 Florida Historical Society [email protected] Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Florida Historical Quarterly by an authorized editor of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation Society, Florida Historical (1989) "Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 68, Number 2," Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 68 : No. 2 , Article 1. Available at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol68/iss2/1 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 68, Number 2 Published by STARS, 1989 1 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 68 [1989], No. 2, Art. 1 COVER Fishing on Lake Weir, near Ocala, FL. Ca. 1900. Enlarged from a post card. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol68/iss2/1 2 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 68, Number 2 The Historical uarterly Volume LXVIII, Number 2 October 1989 THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY COPYRIGHT 1989 by the Florida Historical Society, Tampa, Florida. Second class postage paid at Tampa and DeLeon Springs, Florida. Printed by E. O. Painter Printing Co., DeLeon Springs, Florida. (ISSN 0015-4113) Published by STARS, 1989 3 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 68 [1989], No. 2, Art. 1 THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Samuel Proctor, Editor Everett W. Caudle, Editorial Assistant EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD David R. Colburn University of Florida Herbert J. Doherty University of Florida Michael V. Gannon University of Florida John K. Mahon University of Florida (Emeritus) Jerrell H. Shofner University of Central Florida Charlton W. Tebeau University of Miami (Emeritus) Correspondence concerning contributions, books for review, and all editorial matters should be addressed to the Editor, Florida Historical Quarterly, Box 14045, University Station, Gainesville, Florida 32604-2045. The Quarterly is interested in articles and documents pertaining to the history of Florida. Sources, style, footnote form, original- ity of material and interpretation, clarity of thought, and in- terest of readers are considered. All copy, including footnotes, should be double-spaced. Footnotes are to be numbered con- secutively in the text and assembled at the end of the article. Particular attention should be given to following the footnote style of the Quarterly. The author should submit an original and retain a carbon for security. Authors with access to IBM Word- star or Wordperfect programs are asked to submit both a hardcopy and a diskette. The Florida Historical Society and the Editor of the Florida Historical Quarterly accept no responsibility for statements made or opinions held by authors. The Quarterly reviews books dealing with all aspects of Florida history. Books to be reviewed should be sent to the Editor together with price and information on how they can be ordered. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol68/iss2/1 4 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 68, Number 2 Table of Contents THE INTERNATIONAL OCEAN TELEGRAPH Canter Brown, Jr. 135 THE COMMERCE OF EAST FLORIDA DURING THE EMBARGO, 1806-1812: THE ROLE OF AMELIA ISLAND Christopher Ward 160 ST. AUGUSTINE'S FALLOUT FROM THE YAMASEE WAR John H. Hann 180 SETTLERS, BUREAUCRATS, AND PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS: THE “LITTLE ARREDONDO GRANT" Edward F. Keuchel and Joe Knetsch 201 B OOK REVIEWS . 218 B OOK NOTES . 252 HISTORY NEWS . 257 ANNUAL MEETING . 262 Published by STARS, 1989 5 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 68 [1989], No. 2, Art. 1 BOOK REVIEWS ST. PETERSBURG AND THE FLORIDA DREAM, 1888-1950, by Raymond Arsenault reviewed by Rodney E. Dillon, Jr. PURSUITS OF HAPPINESS: THE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY MODERN BRITISH COLONIES AND THE FORMATION OF AMERICAN CULTURE, by Jack P. Greene reviewed by Darrett B. Rutman BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA: MERCHANT SEAMEN, PI- RATES, AND THE ANGLO-AMERICAN MARITIME WORLD, 1700-1750, by Mar- cus Rediker reviewed by Christopher Ward WAR AND SOCIETY IN REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA: THE WIDER DIMENSIONS OF CONFLICT, by Don Higginbotham reviewed by David T. Morgan THE LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON, by Robert V. Remini reviewed by Richard B. Latner WITHIN THE PLANTATION HOUSEHOLD: BLACK AND WHITE WOMEN OF THE OLD SOUTH, by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese reviewed by Nancy A. Hewitt A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN RICE INDUSTRY, 1685-1985, by Henry C. Dethloff reviewed by John Hebron Moore THE CREATION OF CONFEDERATE NATIONALISM: IDEOLOGY AND IDENTITY IN THE CIVIL WAR SOUTH, by Drew Gilpin Faust reviewed by John Niven MARY TODD LINCOLN: A BIOGRAPHY, by Jean H. Baker reviewed by D’Ann Campbell AN IRISHMAN IN DIXIE: THOMAS CONOLLY'S DIARY OF THE FALL OF THE CONFEDERACY, edited by Nelson D. Lankford reviewed by Bailey Thomson THOSE TERRIBLE CARPETBAGGERS: A REINTERPRETATION, by Richard Nel- son Current reviewed by Joe M. Richardson DISEASE AND DISTINCTIVENESS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH, edited by Todd L. Savitt and James Harvey Young reviewed by Kenneth F. Kiple THE EDUCATION OF BLACKS IN THE SOUTH, 1860-1935, by James D. Ander- son reviewed by Larry E. Rivers C. VANN WOODWARD, SOUTHERNER, by John Herbert Roper reviewed by Herbert J. Doherty THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE SOLID SOUTH: A POLITICAL HISTORY, by Dewey W. Grantham reviewed by David R. Goldfield RETHINKING THE SOUTH: ESSAYS IN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY, by Michael O’Brien reviewed by Julian M. Pleasants SHADES OF THE SUNBELT: ESSAYS ON ETHNICITY, RACE, AND THE URBAN SOUTH, edited by Randall M. Miller and George E. Pozzetta reviewed by James B. Crooks CUBA: BETWEEN REFORM AND REVOLUTION, by Louis A. Perez, Jr. reviewed by Jerry Poyo https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol68/iss2/1 6 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 68, Number 2 THE INTERNATIONAL OCEAN TELEGRAPH by CANTER BROWN, JR. HE SUMMER OF 1865 was one of great relief for most citi- Tzens of the so-recently reaffirmed United States of America. A few weeks earlier, on April 12, Robert E. Lee had surrendered his Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to a victorious Ulys- ses S. Grant and, before the end of the following month, the last Confederate force of consequence remaining in the field, then serving under General Edmund Kirby Smith of St. Augustine, had followed suit. The nation had been shocked and saddened by the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln two days after Lee’s surrender, but to some extent the outrage over that crime had waned in the aftermath of the execution of the Lin- coln conspirators on July 7.1 It was thus that during the summer months of 1865 the attention of the nation for the first time in more than four years could be focused on matters other than war, and the efforts of visionary businessman Cyrus West Field provided a central focal point for that attention. Field was promising to link the United States with Great Britain and the continent of Europe through the installation of an electric telegraph, a feat which, if ac- complished—and many thought it could not be—would reduce from one month to a matter of a second or two the time it took news to cross the Atlantic. Field had attempted the feat before, and in 1858 he succeeded in laying a submarine cable that opened communications between the continents. The triumph quickly turned to disappointment, however, when the cable failed after only a few days.2 Undaunted by his earlier setback, Field and his associates bided their time through the Civil War years, and on June 24, 1865, steamed from England aboard the Great Eastern, the largest ship in the world, intent upon rectifying their mistakes Canter Brown, Jr., is a doctoral student, University of Florida. 1. E. B. Long, The Civil War Day by Day, An Almanac, 1861-1865 (Garden City, NY, 1971), 674-76, 690, 694. 2. Arthur C. Clarke, Voices Across The Sea, revised ed. (New York, 1974), 56-64. [135] Published by STARS, 1989 7 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 68 [1989], No. 2, Art. 1 136 F LORIDA H ISTORICAL Q UARTERLY and achieving a triumph of a more permanent nature. Once again, though, Field was to be frustrated. On August 2, as Amer- icans and Europeans anxiously awaited word of his success, the submarine cable snapped after 1,300 miles of its length had been payed out. For nine days the crew aboard the Great Eastern struggled to grapple the line through 2,000 fathoms of water, but their equipment was not up to the task. On August 11, Field was forced to concede another defeat while vowing a renewed attempt and ultimate success during the following year.3 Field was not the only man who was interested that summer in transoceanic telegraphy. Six days after the departure of the Great Eastern from England, a Spaniard by the name of Don Arturo Marcoartu and his associates, purportedly including a luminary of no less a magnitude than Ferdinand Lesseps, were granted an order by the government of Spain for the survey of a submarine route by which an electric telegraph line might link Spain, Cuba, and the United States.4 It is uncertain as to when news of the Spanish grant reached the United States, particu- larly the city of New York, but it is clear that transoceanic tele- graphy was an idea of current, broad, and immediate interest. Several stories of an anecdotal nature have been told about the birth of the International Ocean Telegraph Company in New York City during the summer of 1865. One account suggested that affluent businessman James A. Scrymser broached the idea to his friend Alfred Pell, Jr., while “mediating beneath an apple tree in the soft shadows of the evening twilight in what way they could most bless their fellow man.“5 A later recollection has the two “rambling along the then fair rural banks of the Harlem River.“6 Whatever, the two men deter- mined that summer to explore the possibilities of a transoceanic line to connect the United States with Cuba and, eventually, Central and South America and the West Indies.
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