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Sketch of Fort Duffield in 1861. The fort is mostly a serpentine wall, unlike the typical star-shaped Civil War forts in Kentucky. The earthworks of the fort are well-preserved. Originally there was a one-mile clearing between the fort and any trees, but since the fort's abandonment the forest has grown back around the fort.
Some historians suggest that these were the first shots fired by United States forces in the Civil War. On January 10, 1861, the day Florida seceded from the Union, the garrison evacuated Fort Barrancas to the dilapidated but more defensible Fort Pickens.
During the American Civil War he sided with the Confederacy and was appointed to command Florida's troops. Sketch of Fort Pickens, Florida, by Lt. Langdon, 1861. Fort Pickens was the largest of a group of fortifications designed to defend Pensacola Harbor. It supplemented Fort Barrancas, Fort McRee, and the Navy Yard. Located at the western tip ...
Siege of Pensacola, a 1781 siege by Spanish forces against a British garrison during the American War of Independence; Battle of Pensacola (1814), an American attack on a British-Spanish force during the War of 1812; Battle of Pensacola (1861), a Union attack on Confederate forts in Pensacola Bay during American Civil War
Florida participated in the American Civil War as a member of the Confederate States of America.It had been admitted to the United States as a slave state in 1845. In January 1861, Florida became the third Southern state to secede from the Union after the November 1860 presidential election victory of Abraham Lincoln.
The city and Fort Barrancas were the site of the 1814 Battle of Pensacola. Fort Pickens was completed in 1834. It is one of the few Southern forts to have been held by the United States throughout the American Civil War. Andrew Jackson served as Florida's first territorial governor, residing at the capital of Pensacola.
Historical Dictionary of the American Revolution Volume 39 of Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810875036. Martín-Merás, Luisa (2007). "The Capture of Pensacola through Maps, 1781" in Legacy: Spain and the United States in the Age of Independence, 1763-1848. Washington, DC: Smithsonian ...
This is a list of Florida Confederate Civil War units. The list of Florida Union Civil War units is shown separately. Infantry. 1st Florida Infantry Regiment;