TODAY IN THE HISTORY OF THE SUNSHINE STATE (Post appears one day before actual date) JULY 5 1812 [In the matter of the Republic of East Florida] Letter from the Correspondence of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Adam Smith, United States Army Commander in Florida 1812-1813, to the Adjutant and Inspector General: Camp Before St. Augustine 5th July, 1812 Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your favors of the 26th and 27th of May, 1st, 2nd, and 13th of June. It transmit herewith a return of the Detachment under my command for June. I have been informed by his Excellency Governor Mitchell that at least one hundred and fifty more Volunteers are on their way to join me. This force with the Marines on Amelia Island aided by six or eight gunboats will be sufficient to reduce the town if authority is received to take active measures in a short time. The Volunteers at present with me [are] only engaged to serve twenty days after their arrival, but I expect to be able to prevail on them to remain longer, particularly if I am authorized to reduce the town and the citadel (Castillo de San Marcos]. The [Spanish] garrison has been reinforced with one hundred blacks from Havana. I send herewith the copy of a contract made with Maj[or] Long for the supply of rations in this Province during the pleasure of the Secretary of War. 1830 Judge F. Bethune reported weather conditions for his New Ross plantation five miles north of Jacksonville on the St. Johns River as 82 degrees and fair weather in the morning, but by three o’clock, the temperature had soared to 95 degrees. 1838 The United States Congress votes to enlarge the U.S. Army to a strength of 11,800 men as a result of the demands of the Second Seminole War in Florida. July 5, 1863 The U.S.S. DeSoto, with Captain W. M. Walker in command, captured the blockade runner, Lady Maria, off the coast of Clearwater, Florida, with a cargo of cotton. 1894 On this day, Elwyn Thomas, Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, was born at Ankona, Florida.
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