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The 1934 lynching of an African American farm laborer named Claude Neal was part of an unprecedented outbreak of violence. It has been called the "last public spectacle" lynching in U.S. history. In the first new book on the incident in thirty years, writer and historian Dale Cox unveils a wealth of new information including never before published information from men involved in the actual lynching, statements from eyewitnesses, new documentation and much more. Critically acclaimed, this book is a must for any student of Southern history or the 1930s. Claude Neal was a Florida farm laborer accused of murdering a young woman named Lola Cannady. Despite the best efforts of law enforcement to protect him, he was taken from jail by force, tortured and murdered. His body was then hanged from a tree in Marianna, the county seat of Jackson County, Florida. The lynching sparked rioting and forced Florida's governor to order National Guard troops to occupy Marianna. The Claude Neal Lynching has been hailed by critics, including Southern novelist Janis Owens, for breaking new ground on the topic and for adding dramatically to what is known of the brutal events of 1934.

Death at Dozier School is the history of the controversial and oft-sensationalized "Boot Hill" Cemetery at the former Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida. The historic cemetery dates back more than 100 years to the earliest days of the Florida Reform School. Used for nearly 75-years as a burial place for the students and employees that lost their lives at Dozier School, its story is one of sadness, pain, heroism and courage.

Milly Francis is the true story of the first woman to receive a special medal of honor from the U.S. Congress. Born in the Creek Nation of Alabama in around 1803, Milly was a first hand witness to the rise and fall of her father's religious movement and the Creek War of 1813-1814. By the time she was 15 years old, she had survived three wars and a desperate flight for survival to Spanish Florida. It was at that age that she saved the life of an American soldier named Duncan McCrimmon, a man who had come to Florida with Andrew Jackson's army to make war on her people during the First Seminole War of 1817-1818. Her act of mercy stunned a grateful nation and sparked a reconsideration of America's attitudes toward its original inhabitants, a process that continues to this day. In Milly Francis, Dale Cox has captured the story of a person, a time and a people. The story he weaves is touching, tragic, heroic and real.

The Ghost of Bellamy Bridge: 10 Ghosts and Monsters from Jackson County, Florida is a fun journey into the true history behind some of Florida's most bizarre tales of the supernatural, the strange and the mysterious. The crown jewel of the book is the author's treatment of the legend of the Ghost of Bellamy Bridge, the tale that is one of Florida's best known ghost stories. Not only is the legend presented, but the remarkable true story behind the tale is revealed. Author and Southern Historian Dale Cox also digs into the real stories behind a number of other Jackson County tales to reveal just how much fun true history can be!

The British built two forts on Florida's Apalachicola River during the closing months of the War of 1812. While the fort at Prospect Bluff is a well-known part of U.S. history, the story of the second fortification has never been told. In Nicolls' Outpost, historian Dale Cox unveils the story of an earth and log outpost that nearly became the jumping-off point for a British invasion of Georgia. The author reveals that there were actually two "Negro Forts" on the Apalachicola River, British outposts where escaped slaves came to find freedom and wear the uniform of Great Britain during the War of 1812. He also provides exquisite detail of a council at the fort that ended with the first formal written agreement between the various towns and groups that went on to form today's Seminole Tribe of Florida and the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. Dale Cox is the author of nineteen books on Southeastern U.S. history. His Yuchi Indian ancestors fought in the Creek Wars and the War of 1812. This is the story of an Underground Railroad that ran south into Florida and a British invasion that almost stormed north into Georgia, all told through the history of a long-forgotten fort at Chattahoochee, Florida.

Fort Gaines was a United States military post built on the Georgia frontier in 1816. It served to stifle Native American resistance to the Treaty of Fort Jackson, which seized 22 million acres of land from the Muscogee or Creek people in present-day Georgia and Alabama. The fort played a key role in both the Prospect Bluff or Negro Fort campaign of 1816 and the First Seminole War of 1817-1818. It was a vital outpost on the front lines of the internal conflict between the traditional leaders of the Creek Nation and the Red Stick prophets, chiefs, and warriors who retreated into the borderlands of Spanish Florida following the Creek War of 1813-1814. Historian and author Dale Cox - noted for The Fort at Prospect Bluff and Fowltown - joins with Rachael Conrad to explore the three lives of Fort Gaines in amazing detail. From the fort's earliest days as an outpost far in advance of the frontier to its final moments as a Confederate battery and last line of defense on the Chattahoochee River, they give life to a story that other historians have all but forgotten. Parts of the book read so much like an adventure that only the incredible number of citations serve as a reminder that the story is real and at times heartbreaking. This book is a perfect companion for the other volumes in Cox's expanding series on the War of 1812 on the Gulf Coast, the Creek War of 1813-1814, and the Seminole Wars.