May 25th 2 Markers at the St Augustine National Cemetery

There are two sets of markers here, one called "To the Officers and Soldiers Killed in the Florida War, which is an obelisk marker, and then there are 3 pyramid structures said to contain the remains of some 1468  soldiers killed, named after a Major Dade and his men.


Sorry again for the cloudy photos, darn humidity...

For some reason, next to the obelisk is the entirety of the Lincoln Gettysburg Address on a marker-  still only 240 words.....

Sacred to the memory of the officers and soldiers killed in battle and died in service during the Florida War.

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This monument has been erected in token of respectful & affectionate remembrance by their comrades of all grades and is committed to the care & preservation of the garrison of St. Augustine.

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A minute record of all the officers who perished and are here or elsewhere deposited as also a portion of the soldiers has been prepared and placed in the office of the Adjutant of the Post where it is hoped it will be carefully and perpetually preserved.

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This conflict in which so many gallant men perished in battle and by disease commenced 25th December, 1835  and terminated 11th August 1842.

Then, as mentioned, there are 3 rather large pyramids said to contain the remains of 1468  fallen soldiers: 

 Major Dade and his Command Monuments 

On December 28, 1835, during the Second Seminole War, a column of 108 U.S. Army soldiers dispatched from Fort Brooke (Tampa) to relieve the detachment at Fort King (Ocala) was surprised by a strong force of Seminole Indians near Bushnell in Sumter County. Except for three soldiers and an interpreter, the entire column of 108 men, led by Major Francis Langhorne Dade, perished in battle that day. On August 15, 1842, Dade and his command, as well as other casualties of the war, were re-interred here under three coquina stone pyramids in a ceremony marking the end of the conflict. Among those buried with Dade are Captain George W. Gardiner, U.S. Military Academy (U.S.M.A.) 1814, first Commandant of Cadets at West Point, and Major David Moniac, U.S.M.A., 1822, a Creek Indian and first Native-American graduate of the Military Academy.

Florida Heritage Landmark
Sponsored by the West Point Society of North Florida and the Florida Department of State
F-434 2001

These three pyramids cover vaults containing the individually unidentified remains of 1468 soldiers of the Florida Indian Wars 1835-1842

The Florida Indian Wars began with the murder of an Indian Agent at Fort King (Ocala), 106 officers and men under the command of Major Francis L. Dade, Company B, 4th Regiment of Infantry, were ambushed by hostile Indians on December 23, 1835. All but two men were killed in the attack. The remains of Major Dade and those who perished with him are interred beneath these pyramids.