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Published by STARS, 1999 3 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 78 [1999], No. 4, Art. 1 Book Reviews Lynn Willough by, Flowing Through Time: A History ofthe Lower Chattahoochee River by Denni L. Scarnecchia Ir Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Larry E. Riv r Th da Perdue, Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 b Shirley A . Leckie ynthi A. Ki rner, Beyond the Household: Women 's Place in the Early South, 1700-1835 b Eli zabeth Nybakk n C)m thia Lynn Lye rly, Methodism and the Southern Mind by Stac y K. Clo J hn G. Crowl y, Primitive Baptists of the Wiregrass South: 1815 to the Present by J ohn]. Guthrie J r. Edward A. Pearson, d. , Designs Against Charleston: The Trial Record of the Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy of 1822 by Rob rt Olwell Timothy D.Johnson, Winfield Scott: The Qp,estfor Military Glory b J ohn K. Mahon David William , Rich Man's War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley b Kenn th W. Noe J anie Attie, Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War by Barbara A. Worthy Thoma G. Dye r, Secret Yankees: The Union Circle in Confederate Atlanta b Frank M. Lowrey https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol78/iss4/1 4 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 78, Number 4 Warren B. Armstrong, For Courageous Fighting and Confident Dying: Union Chaplains in the Civil War by Edwin S. Redkey . Elizabeth York Enstam, Women and the Creation of Urban Life: Dallas, Texas, 1843-1920 by Merline Pitre Cecilia Elizabeth O 'Leary, To Die For: The Paradox ofAmerican Patriotism by John M. Coski Barbara Barksdale Clowse, Ralph McGill: A Biography by Marie Hardin Shelly Romalis, Pistol Packin' Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of Folksong by Deborah L. Blackwell J eff Roche, Restructured Resistance: The Sibley Commission and ife Politics ofDesegregation in Georgia by Sarah Hart Brown R. Douglas Hart, ed., The Rural South Since World War II by William C. Hine J. Morgan Kousser, Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction by Hugh Davis Graham Cyn thia Griggs Fleming, Soon We Will Not Cry: The Liberation ofRuby Doris Smith Robinson by Curtis Aus ti n J ack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson, 01' Strom: An Unauthorized Biography ofStrom Thurmond by J ames Edward Cross Michele Gillespie and Catherine Clinton, eds., Taking Off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women Historians by Pamela Tyler Published by STARS, 1999 5 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 78 [1999], No. 4, Art. 1 https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol78/iss4/1 6 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 78, Number 4 A Muddy Water Warrior's Manual: Toward a Riverine Warfare Tactical Doctrine in the Second Seminole War by R. Blake Dunnavent A fter days of tedious excursions in the miserable humidity of 1\.. Florida's Everglades, LieutenantJohn T. McLaughlin decided to return his disabled and ick to their i land base. The ailors, now several years into the Second Seminol War, had become phys ically overwhelmed by the wet condition, biting insects, and swampli£ around them. Moving through terrain typified by"continuou por­ tage over tump and cypres knee with occasional glimp es of open water," the healthier of McLaughlin' men continu d their assignment, paddling their mall canoes to search out ign of en­ emy activity. Excitement arose as three canoes were di covered con­ cealed in the undergrowth, but the force did not locate any Indians. When given orders to proceed to the coast, the men found a renewed strength as they maneuvered their own boats away from the anxiety of riverine warfare.' Lieutenant McLaughlin's experience in the final months of the Second Seminole War provide an example of th develop­ ment of a naval tactical doctrine for the operations in Florida's riv­ erine environment. Drawing upon a pects of riverine operation originated in the American Revolution (including hara sing fire, R. Blake Dunnav nt i assistant profe or of history at Lubb ck Christian niv rsity. 1. John T. McLaughlin to Secretary of the Navy, 23 D cember 1841, L tt rs Received by the Secretary of the Navy from Commission d Officer Below th Rank of Commander and from Warrant Officers, 1802-1884 (hereaft r cited a fficer' Letter ) Record Group 45, Microfilm ColI ction 148, Reel 141, National Archive , Washington, D.C. [417] Published by STARS, 1999 7 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 78 [1999], No. 4, Art. 1 41 FLORID HI TORI Q ARTERLY fir upport, and riverin amphibious landing) and th War of 1 12 ( uch as th day tim ambu h) , the naval forces in Florida from 1 35 to 1 42 found the chall nges of Indian warfar and a s mi-tropical nvironment reason to improve on the pr cedents and implement n w tactic that would tablish patterns for future ri erine warfare.