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General Edmund Pendleton Gaines
 
General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, one of the high-ranking army officers who defended the  freedom of the Black Seminoles under the war powers. Gaines fought the Seminole allies in three major engagements and knew them as well as any white commander. Photo from the 1840s, attributed to Matthew Brady's studio. Florida Photographic Collection.