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Record Group Number: 900000
Collection Number: M92- 1
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Collection/Series Title: Call family and Brevard family papers, 1788-1925.
Container: 00001
File Unit: 00001.00003
Item: 00007
Title: Letter, January 28, 1838, Prince Achille Murat, Aide de Camp (location illegible), to Governor Richard K. Call, Tallahassee, 4 pp., regarding military operations of two companies of troops against the Indians: "I hope by tomorrow morning to have 100 men into the field, to wit: Capt. Newsom volunteer company - 50; Capt. _____ drafted company - 50. there is a camp established at the head of the Wascilla and tomorrow or day after I shall establish another at the natural bridge of the Auscilla. . . The reports I have from the scouts show that there are no Indians at present between the Auscilla and St. Marks river. . . I have . . . about 100 negroes of the neighborhood wanting to make blockhouses and stove houses at the head of the Wascilla. . . Arms are wanting for about 50 men. The powder sent is complained of as being very inferior. A few tents, cooking utensils . . . are wanted for the two companies. . ."
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