Dothan is privileged that the artist who painted one of its murals included a depiction of one of the MOST HEROIC ACTS OF THE FIRST SEMINOLE WAR. In the upper right hand corner of the mural on East Main entitled  THE ABDUCTION OF ELIZABETH STUART DILL, you can see a U.S. infantryman being blown backwards by the recoil of the small cannon he is holding. Here's the story of this incredible feat by Sergeant McIntosh which occurred on the Apalachicola River 70 miles below Dothan 200 years ago THIS THURSDAY, November 30.
 from WOODWARD'S REMINISCENCES, "I must here mention a circumstance that occurred on board the boat at the time, which I learned from one of the men who escaped, and also from some of the Indians who were present. There was a Sergeant named McIntosh, a Scotsman, on board, whom I knew well. He was with Colonel, afterwards  General Thomas A. Smith, before St. Augustine, Fla., in 1812, and a Sergeant in Capt. Woodruff's company, at the beginning of the War of 1812, and was a favorite among officers and soldiers. He was an own cousin of the Indian General McIntosh you knew, whose grave you say you not long since visited. Sergeant McIntosh was a man of giant size, and perhaps more bodily strength than any man I have known in our service. When he found all on the boat were lost, and nothing more could be done, he went into a little kind of cabin the Lieutenant had occupied as his quarters, in which was a swivel or small cannon; loaded it, took it on deck, and resting the swivel on one arm ranged it as well as he could, and (the Indians by this time were boarding the boat) with a firebrand, he set off the swivel, which cleared the boat for a short time gave Gray a chance to escape." https://archive.org/stream/woodwardsreminis00wood#page/52/mode/2up