Osceola His Capture and Seminole Legends
Publisher: Old Kings Road Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Flagler Beach Florida
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781601790347
Description: Story of Osceola told in first person. Traces his family's linkage to the Creek Red Stick movement and Tecumseh to the escape to the Pea (Peace River) area of south Florida. Insight into Osceola's early years, his actions at Fort King, and later leadership in the Second Seminole War. Offers insight as to the motivation of Osceola, who while not a Chief of the Seminoles, became a great war leader and was captured under a white flag of truce by Gen. Hernandez and some 200 army soldiers. Described as historic fiction strongly based on fact and original documents. Includes the story of Col. Sherburne and the possibility of a new image of Osceola's wife and son as described in a London Newspaper of 1848.  Describes capture site and events leading up to Second Seminole War.