Brevet Major, Company B, 4th Infantry

Listed in Ponce de Leon Land and Florida War Record ... By George M. Brown (1902), page 159 - 2. Dade, Francis L., br. major Co. "B," died at Dade's Massacre December 28, 1835; killed in action.

Listed on U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs Database. (Dade, Francis L, d. 12/28/1935, B MAJOR B 4TH INF FLA WAR, Orig Bur Dades Massacrew See 213333 Apr 2, 1907, Plot: PYRAMBENEATH, *)
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Roll of Honor * Dade's Command

Brevet Major Francis Langhorne Dade 4th Regiment Infantry
Capt Upton Sinclair Fraser Co. B 3rd Artillery
Capt George W. Gardiner Co. C 2nd Artillery
1st Lt. William Elon Basinger 2nd Regiment Artillery
2nd Lt. Robert R. Mudge 3rd Regiment Artillery
Brevet 2nd Lt. Richard Henderson 2nd Artillery
Brevet 2nd Lt. John L. Keais 3rd Artillery
Ass't Surgeon John Slade Gatlin Medical Staff

Company B, 4th Infantry
Peter Thomas
Pvt. John Barnes
Pvt. Donald Campbell
Pvt. Enoch Cates
Pvt. Martin Cunningham
Pvt. John Doughty
Pvt. Cornelius Donovan
Pvt. William Downes
Pvt. Samuel Hall
Pvt. Wiley Jones
Pvt. John Markham

Company H, 2nd Artillery
Pvt. Richard R. Bowen
Pvt. Henry Brandon
Pvt. John Craig
Pvt. John Keirns
Pvt. Hugh McMee
Pvt. John A Patten
Pvt. Reuben Philips
Pvt. Thomas Thornton
Pvt. Hiram Taylor
Pvt. William Wright
Pvt. John Stafford

Company B, 2nd Artillery
Pvt. Edward DeCoursey
Pvt. Edward Belton
Pvt. Michael Kenny
Pvt. Anthony Laughlin
Pvt. John McWiggin
Pvt. James McDonald
Pvt. John McCartney
Pvt. Hugh Perry
Pvt. Patrick Rooney

Company C, 2nd Artillery
1st Sgt. John Hood
Sgt. Philip Cooper
Sgt. John Lovis
Sgt. Thomas Savin
Cpl. Michael Ryan
Cpl. Nicholas Clark
Cpl. James Dunlap
William Carney, Musician
Charles T Heck, Musician
George Howard, Artificer
Pvt. William Black
Pvt. Richard Bourke
Pvt. Rufus Barton
Pvt. Owen Boyen
Pvt. Thomas Davis
Pvt. Robert Green
Pvt. Isaac C Grant
Pvt. Alphius Gillet
Pvt. John Halter
Pvt. John Hurley
Pvt. William Holmes
Pvt. Cornelius Hill
Pvt. Aaron Jewell
Pvt. Thomas Knarr
Pvt. Robert Mulvahal
Pvt. William Neely
Pvt. William Robertson
Pvt. Patrick Rafferty
Pvt. John Reilly
Pvt. Casper Schneider
Pvt. William Taylor
Pvt. Isaac Taylor
Pvt. Joseph Wilson
Pvt. Orville Worcester

Company B, 3rd Artillery
Sgt. Benjamin Chapman
Sgt. John Vailing
Sgt. A.C.W. Farley
Cpl. George C Young
Cpl. Philander Wells
Cpl. Alexander Jones
Henry Wagner, Artificer
Pvt. George Bertram
Pvt. B.C. Carpenter
Pvt. Patrick Cumasky
Pvt. Samuel E. Dodge
Pvt. William Flanagan
Pvt. John C. Folk
Pvt. George Hurlyhigh
Pvt. Jordan Hall
Pvt. Samuel Kinkerly
Pvt. Jacob Kneeland
Pvt. Samuel Lemon
Pvt. William Minton
Pvt. Donald Monroe
Pvt. John Mulcahy
Pvt. William D Randalls
Pvt. John Schaffer
Pvt. Henry Sennam
Pvt. Washington Tuck
Pvt. Richard Vreeland
Pvt. Samuel S. Wright
Pvt. John Williams
Pvt. Sylvester Welch
Pvt. Daniel Weshing
Pvt. George York
William McGrew, Artificer

Sole Survivors * Wounded
Pvt. Ransom Clark Co. B, 2nd Artillery
Pvt. Joseph Sprague, Co. B, 3rd Artillery
Pvt. John Thomas, Co. B, 2nd Artillery

Researched by: Camillia
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Army officer, killed at what became known as the "Dade Massacre" during the Second Seminole War. Having entered the Army in 1816, he had been promoted to brevet major in 1828. He was stationed at Fort Brooke on Tampa Bay in Florida in 1835, at a time of considerable unrest among the Seminole in the area. He was in command of a column of 110 soldiers and six officers sent to reinforce Fort King, near present-day Ocala. A band of 200 Seminoles ambushed the column, killing all but two soldiers. Initially buried at the site of the ambush, the men were reinterred at Saint Augustine National Cemetery under three pyramids constructed of native coquina stone in 1842. Dade County, Florida, now officially renamed Miami-Dade County, was named for him. (bio by: Garver Graver)

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Edit to bio (above) created by Garver Graver:

Francis Langhorne Dade entered the US Army in 1813, not 1816. This information is from Heitman's Register.

This information submitted by Contributor #48604297 on 12/14/2014.