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Is it true that Chief Osceola is buried in South

Iirc, isnt he buried on Sullivans Island?

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Osceola - Wikipedia

Capture and death

Osceola's grave at Fort Moultrie
On October 21, 1837, Osceola and 81 of his followers were captured by General Joseph Hernández on the orders of General Thomas Jesup, under a white flag of truce, when they went for peace talks to Fort Peyton near St. Augustine.[16][4]: 25 [17] He was initially imprisoned at Fort Marion in St. Augustine, before being transferred to Fort Moultrie on Sullivans Island, outside Charleston, South Carolina. Osceola's capture by deceit caused a national uproar. General Jesup's treacherous act and the administration were condemned by many congressional leaders and vilified by international press. Jesup suffered a loss of reputation that lasted for the rest of his life; his betrayal of the truce flag has been described as "one of the most disgraceful acts in American military history."[7]: 221, 218

That December, Osceola and other Seminole prisoners were moved to Fort Moultrie. They were visited by various townspeople.[7]: 213–5 The portraitists George Catlin, W. M. Laning, and Robert John Curtis, the three artists known to have painted Osceola from life, persuaded the Seminole leader to allow his portrait to be painted despite his being gravely ill.[1]: 217–8 [4]: 115–6 Osceola and Curtis developed a close friendship, conversing at length during the painting sessions; Curtis painted two oil portraits of Osceola, one of which remains in the Charleston Museum.[7]: 231 These paintings have inspired numerous widely distributed prints and engravings, and cigar store figures were also based on them.

Osceola, having suffered from chronic malaria since 1836, and having acute tonsillitis as well, developed an abscess.[7]: 233 When he was close to death, he asked the attending doctor, Frederick Weedon, that his last wish be that his body be returned to Florida, his home so he may rest in peace.[18] He died of quinsy[4]: 144 on January 30, 1838, three months after his capture.[5][19] Weedon cut off Osceola's head, and buried his decapitated body, displaying his head in his drug store until 1843 when Valentine Mott accepted it into his cabinet of heads until his death after which it was lost.[18]

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