James Gadsden

Jackson both during the War of 1812 against the British Army and against the American Indians in the newly purchased (1819) Territory of Florida during the early 1820s. Nearly all of this Federally-owned land was in the long run set aside as a large sparsely-inhabited American Indian reservation testing and combat-practice ranges for the U. S.

James Gadsden (May 15 1788 – December 26 1858) was an American diplomat soldier and businessman and namesake of the Gadsden Purchase in which the United States purchased from Mexico the land that became the southern portion of Arizona and New Mexico. Army from August 13 1821-March 22 1822 and held the rank of colonel in the US Army. S.