Frank Laumer Follow

Frank Laumer is the author of two histories of U.S. Army Brevet Major Francis Dade’s soldiers, Massacre! and Dade’s Last Command. He was the first recipient of the D.B. McKay Award from the Tampa Historical Society for “Distinguished Service in the Cause of Florida History.” Mr. Laumer is president of the Seminole Wars Historic Foundation and past president of the Dade Battlefield Society. Nobody’s Hero is based on forty-six years of research on the Dade Massacre, including the exhumation of Clark’s remains in order to verify his wounds. In addition, Laumer researched the exact location of Fort King Road, which Dade’s command traveled from Tampa to the battlefield, and then walked the entire fifty miles wearing the full uniform of the period, at the same time of year and even during the same phase of the moon that the command experienced.