Reactions to the Second Seminole War were strong in both the North and the
South.  While American atrocities incited outrage in the North over
treatment of the Seminole Indians, the settlers in the South felt
differently.  Indeed the Indians, outnumbered by forty-to-one in the
conflict, waged a clever, brutal guerrilla war, inflicting over 1,500
American fatalities (the largest number of war dead up to that time).  The
above woodcut depicts the murder of some 400 white men, women, and
children (including Major Francis L. Dade and a hundred of his soldiers)
at the hands of both blacks and Indians.