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Swamp Sailors in the Second Seminole War (Florida Sand Dollar Books)

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Before the U.S.-Mexican War and long before the Civil War, the U.S. Army and Navy had its hands full with the Seminoles in Florida. Charged with the near impossible task expelling the Native Americans who had moved into the swamps of southern Florida, the military had to develop new ways of bringing warfare into the swamps.

Buker tells in a relatively dry fashion the changes in naval strategy that occurred during the war and which would end up playing a role in later conflicts throughout the mid 1880s. The culmination of these changes was a coherent strategy for riverine warfare that employed a mix of sailors, soldiers and marines using shallow draft boats that could navigate their way through the swamps. All in all it's an interesting slice of military history.