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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.
Most of the wood decking within the fort had gone up in flames while one powder magazine caved in, killing six Confederates in the process. [1] The actions on 22 and 23 November would be the last engagement for Fort McRee. Although there was an artillery duel on 1 January 1862, the fort was not a participant in that action. [1]
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
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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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