During the Seminole Wars, he served as a captain and a colonel.
In 1835 he lost everything during the Second Seminole War.
Just one year later, he went to fight in the Seminole Wars.
It was reopened for the third Seminole War from 1856-1858.
He attended the common schools and served as a private in the Seminole War.
Even so, an early model was used in the Seminole Wars in 1838.
He later fought in the Seminole Wars of the 1830s.
His father was an officer in the Seminole Wars and a poet himself.
Between the end of the last Seminole War and 1930, the people lived in relative isolation.
Many officers who had served in the Seminole Wars favored the idea.