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Engraving of wartime Fort Pickens. Fort Pickens is a historic pentagonal United States military fort on Santa Rosa Island in the Pensacola, Florida, area. It is named after American Revolutionary War hero Andrew Pickens. It is the largest of four forts built to defend Pensacola Bay and its navy yard. [2]
William Henry Chase (June 4, 1798 – February 8, 1870) was a Florida militia colonel during the events in early 1861 that led to the American Civil War (Civil War). On January 15, 1861, on behalf of the State and Governor of Florida, Colonel Chase demanded the surrender of Fort Pickens at Pensacola, Florida and of its U.S. Army garrison.
Santa Rosa Island is a 40-mile barrier island in the U.S. state of Florida, thirty miles from the Alabama state border. At the western end stands Fort Pickens, which in the first week of January 1861 had a garrison of only one company, Company G of the 1st Regiment, US Artillery.
Bloody Banners and Barefoot Boys: A History of the 27th Regiment Alabama Infantry CSA : the Civil War memoirs and diary entries of J.P. Cannon, M.D.. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Burd Street Press, 1997. Faust, James P. The Fighting Fifteenth Alabama Infantry: A Civil War History and Roster. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2015.
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.
History books about the American Civil War (54 P) M. ... Pages in category "American Civil War books" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
Guelzo, Allen C. Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0199843282. Fellman, Michael et al. This Terrible War: The Civil War and its Aftermath (2nd. ed. 2007). Eicher, David J. The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
Pages in category "Children's books set during the American Civil War" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .