CAPTAIN GUNNISON IN THE HOMELAND OF THE TABEGAUCHE (Part 1)or
“Chronicle of a Death foretold in the Kingdom of the Saints, 1850”
Carlos Pitts
Born in New-Hampshire in 1812, John Williams Gunnison graduated second in the West Point Class of 1837, was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Artillery Corps, and posted to Florida for operations against recalcitrain Seminole patriots under the leadershipof the noble Osceola and the valiant Micanopy. Temporarily detached to the command of General Winfield Scott in 1838. Lieutenant Gunnison was an a…
