Abner Doubleday Quotes

Doubleday, Abner. My Life in the Old Army: The Reminiscences of Abner Doubleday. Ed. Joseph E. Chance. Fort Worth, TX: Texas Christian UP, 1998.

The scouting activities on the eastern side of the peninsula of Florida came out of Fort Dallas, Fort Lauderdale, and Fort Capron, near modern-day Vero Beach, Florida. Colonel Justin Dimick was in charge of most of these operations for the main portion of the war. Under him served Captain John Brannan and Captain Abner Doubleday. The men of this command covered much of the area in today’s Broward and Dade Counties and found little to encourage them. Scouting consisted of taking canoes up the Miami or New River into the Everglades and

GENERAL J.M. BRANNAN, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY ANTHONY. John Brannan served under Justin Dimmick during the Third Seminole War and, with Abner Doubleday, completed the road between Fort Dallas (Miami) and Fort Lauderdale. Parts of this road are still used today. The most difficult task besides the scouting in the marshes and bay-galls was getting supplies and forage to these troops.

Few persons appreciate the steadiness and courage required, when all around is in flight and confusion, for a force to advance steadily to the post of danger in front and meet the exulting enemy. Such men are heroes, and far more worthy of honor than those who fight in the full blaze of successful warfare.