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Pvt John Craig

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Pvt John Craig Veteran

Birth
Death
28 Dec 1835
Bushnell, Sumter County, Florida, USA
Burial
Saint Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida, USA Add to Map
Plot
Beneath the Dade Pyramids
Memorial ID
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Pvt., Company H, 2nd Artillery

A soldier under Maj. Frances Dade, Killed on the road from Fort Brooke to Fort King by Seminole Indians in what became known as Dade's Massacre.

Listed on the Roll of Honor at Dade Battlefield Historic State Park, Bushnell, Florida, site of the ambush and original burial place of Dade's Command.

Listed in Ponce de Leon Land and Florida War Record ... By George M. Brown (1902), page 134 - 16. Craig, John, privt. Co. "H," died at Dade's Massacre December 28, 1835; killed in action.

Listed on the interment rolls of St. Augustine National Cemetery. (Craig, John, d. 12/28/1885, PVT H 2D ARTY FLA-WAR, Orig Bur Dadis Massacre, Plot: PYRAMBENEATH, *) Note year of death date is wrong on VA records.

Pvt., Company H, 2nd Artillery

A soldier under Maj. Frances Dade, Killed on the road from Fort Brooke to Fort King by Seminole Indians in what became known as Dade's Massacre.

Listed on the Roll of Honor at Dade Battlefield Historic State Park, Bushnell, Florida, site of the ambush and original burial place of Dade's Command.

Listed in Ponce de Leon Land and Florida War Record ... By George M. Brown (1902), page 134 - 16. Craig, John, privt. Co. "H," died at Dade's Massacre December 28, 1835; killed in action.

Listed on the interment rolls of St. Augustine National Cemetery. (Craig, John, d. 12/28/1885, PVT H 2D ARTY FLA-WAR, Orig Bur Dadis Massacre, Plot: PYRAMBENEATH, *) Note year of death date is wrong on VA records.


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