RICHMOND COUNTY, GA - MILITARY  Capt Bones "Richmond Hussars" 1836

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Richmond Hussars


Capt Bones  


Newspaper Accounts:

30 Jan 1836  
Federal Union  (Transcribed by Lindy Hardy)

The Richmond Blues, under Capt. Robertson,
arrived at Jacksonville, in the steamer Florida.

[Fort Picolata - Florida St. Johns County]

January 30.-The Richmond Blues left Jacksonville,
for Picolata. … The Richmond Blues, the volunteers
from Glynn and Camden, under captain Richard
Floyd, and the volunteers from Darien [McIntosh Co], under
captain Thomas F. Bryan, have received orders to
escort twenty-five waggons loaded with supplies,
and three field pieces, from Picolata to Camp
King.  This detachment is accompanied by
lieutenant Pierce, U. S. A., who had arrived a few
days before, with the waggons, from Camp King.

[NOTES: http://www.ocala.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030101/OCALACOMHISTORY/30919015/-1/OCALACOM&template=ocalacom

Fort King was built in 1827 at the north 
end of the Seminole Reservation,[Marion Co Fl] and it would become the most important fort in Florida following the Treaty of Paynes Landing of 1832 (May 9).(Treaty to remove Indians from Florida to Arkansas Territory west of Mississippi) The fort was built to be durable and comfortable. Materials were ordered from the War Department; however, the government turned the request down.]

The Richmond Hussars, under captain Bones, have
arrived at Picolata; but their baggage waggons
have not reached that place.-The volunteers from
Charleston remain at St. Augustine. … Volunteer
companies of infantry from Campbell, Carroll,
Coweta, DeKalb, and Fayette, which have tendered
their services to the governor,  have been invited
by his Excellency to rendezvous at Columbus, and
proceed from thence by steam-boat, to Tampa Bay.
No doubt is entertained, that they will comply
with the wish of the Executive. They number about
five hundred men.