SW031 Despite Close Call, 3rd Time is Still a Charm for Dade Marchers on 2004 Fort King Road Trek

Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of podcasts over the coming weeks promoting the Seminole Wars Foundation's virtual challenge, The Major Dade Memorial March to Fort King that launches Dec. 22. Registration to join Laumer's Legion is now open. Visit www.seminolewars.us for details.

In modern times, there have been three formal treks commemorating Major Dade’s march from Fort Brooke to catastrophe, near present-day Bushnell. The first was in 1963. The second was in 1988. And a third was in 2004.

In this episode, Ross Lamoreaux returns to the Seminole Wars podcast to describe what that third march – and his first – was like and what perils these marchers encountered along that most dangerous stretch of the old Fort King Military road called...US Route 301. Ross then spends a little time explaining what it means to be a living historian military reenactor at sites such as the Dade Battlefield Historic State Park, where he often portrays soldiers but sometimes an individual, such as Captain Gardiner’s from Dade’s column.

Ross Lamoreaux, current president of the Dade Battlefield Society, portrays a 1835-era US Army Soldier at the annual memorial to the fallen combatants at the Dade Battlefield Historic State Park in Bushnell, Fla.

Host Patrick Swan is a board member with the Seminole Wars Foundation. He is a combat veteran and of the U.S. Army, serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Kosovo, and at the Pentagon after 9/11. A military historian, he holds masters degrees in Public History, Communication, and Homeland Security, and is a graduate of the US Army War College with an advanced degree in strategic studies. This podcast is recorded at the homestead of the Seminole Wars Foundation in Bushnell, Florida. 

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