| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

The Seminole Wars: America's Longest Indian Conflict. By John Missall and Mary Lou Missall. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. xxii, 255 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8130-2715-2.)

It is a wonder that more historians have not turned their attention to the Seminole wars. The second of these three conflicts consumed the U.S. Army between 1835 and 1842 and cost some $30 million, more than the entire annual budget of the federal government at the time. It was the first guerrilla war fought by the United States, became a sensation in the press, and challenged the Republic's sense of moral virtue. Edmund Gaines, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jesup, Winfield Scott, and Zachary Taylor—a roll call of antebellum generals—participated in the hostilities. John Missall and Mary Lou Missall's historical narrative, The Seminole Wars, covers all three conflicts and attempts to put them in the broader context of nineteenth-century America.

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