A bugler played taps as the West Point Society of North Florida held their annual ceremony that remembers those who died during the wars that pitted the United States against the Seminole and Miccosukee tribes.
Amid precise rows of marble tombstones marking the graves of military men and their spouses, several dozen people gathered Saturday morning at the St. Augustine National Cemetery to remember those who died on the battlefield during the Second Seminole War.
The day was humid and bright, probably much like Aug. 15, 1842, when seven mule-drawn wagons covered with the American flags slowly neared what was once the garden of the St. Francis Barracks on Marine Street.