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On 9 October 1861 the commander of Confederate forces in Pensacola, General Braxton Bragg, ordered an assault on Fort Pickens that was ultimately unsuccessful. Colonel Harvey Brown, the commander of Union forces, felt this attack required an answer and planned an attack of his own. Fort McRee, the closest fortification to Fort Pickens and a ...
After fighting at Perryville it was assigned to Preston's, Stovall's, Finley's, J.A. Smith's Brigade, and during December, 1862, consolidated with the 1st Florida Infantry Regiment along with other units from Florida to become the Florida Brigade of the Army of Tennessee. It was organized with 950 officers and men, and the 1st and 3rd lost ...
The harbor of Pensacola, Florida in 1861. Map of Santa Rosa Island Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program. The Battle of Santa Rosa Island (October 9, 1861) was an unsuccessful Confederate attempt to take Union-held Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island, Florida.
William Bryan died on a Florida hospital operating table when a doctor wrongfully removed his liver on Aug. 21, 2024. Zarzaur Law Bryan underwent a hand-assisted laparoscopic splenectomy procedure ...
William Creeden, former international secretary-treasurer of the Boilermakers Union, enters the Robert J. Dole Federal Courthouse in Kansas City, Kansas, on Aug. 30, 2024. Four former union ...
When the civil war erupted in 1861 Florida hastened to raise a regiment of infantry.On January 6, state militia occupied the Apalachicola Arsenal at Chattahoochee and the following day the Fort Marion in St. Augustine. on May 5, 1861, men from the counties of Leon, Alachua, Madison, Jefferson, Jackson, Franklin, Gadsden, and Escambia were mustered into state service as the 1st Florida Infantry ...
William Bryan, 70, of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, underwent surgery on Aug. 21, at Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast hospital in Miramar, Florida, because of spleen abnormalities, according to a ...
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 of Santa Rosa Island, just offshore from the mainland, Fort Pickens guarded the island and the entrance to the harbor.