re: #328 Decatur Deb

Are you up on the other (earlier) Underground Railroad, the one that went to the Negro Fort/Fort Gadsden area in Spanish Florida? Went bad.

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No kidding. Though given that the so called ‘Negro Fort’ was sited along a river, there was no way Andrew Jackson was going to just ‘let it be’. A hostile fort choked off all commerce and settlement along a river, since no commercial traffic could pass it without permission. But even so, the fort’s end via magazine explosion was horrible. Ammunition explosions are always a horror.