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Fort Duffield is a Union American Civil War fort located outside West Point, Kentucky. It saw use in 1862, and was abandoned when it appeared that the war would never come near the fort. Ironically, John Hunt Morgan would in 1863 lead his Raiders right past the fort and may have been stopped had the fort not been abandoned.
The Department of Virginia and North Carolina was a United States Military department encompassing Union-occupied territory in the Confederate States during the Civil War. In 1863 it was formed by the merging of two previously existing departments: the Department of Virginia and the Department of North Carolina. In 1865 the two departments were ...
After Abraham Lincoln was elected President, but before he took office, southern states began seceding from the United States, led by South Carolina on December 20, 1860. . Around midnight of January 8, 1861 the small garrison of Fort Barrancas repelled a group of local men intent on taking the
Jefferson Davis Memorial Park at Fort Monroe, Virginia. Fort Monroe: Jefferson Davis Memorial Park (1956). Dedicated by UDC, [54] the park commemorates the CSA president's two years of imprisonment in the fort. [55] Fredericksburg: Lee Hill Community Center
Pensacola was launched by the Pensacola Navy Yard on August 15, 1859, and commissioned there on December 5, 1859, for towing to Washington Navy Yard for installation of machinery. She was decommissioned January 31, 1860, and commissioned in full on September 16, 1861, Captain Henry W. Morris in command.
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
The Confederate States Marine Corps (CSMC), also referred to as the Confederate States Marines, was a branch of the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War.It was established by an act of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States on March 16, 1861.