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1 de sept. de 2021 · After Florida officially joined the Confederacy on February 28, 1861, and the Confederate Army was created on March 6, the Confederate War Department required Florida to contribute men. Five-thousand Floridians filled the Confederate ranks by the end of 1861, leaving the state virtually defenseless.
- Critical Commissary in Florida
Throughout the late Spring and into the Summer of 1863, the...
- Blockade
An article describing the Union blockade of Southern ports...
- The Battle of Olustee
Despite this battle being one of the only major engagements...
- Florida in the Civil War
VIDEO | Lindsey Morrison of the Civil War Trust speaks on...
- Critical Commissary in Florida
In January 1861, Florida became the third Southern state to secede from the Union after the November 1860 presidential election victory of Abraham Lincoln. It was one of the initial seven slave states which formed the Confederacy on February 8, 1861, in advance of the American Civil War.
On February 20, 1864, the largest Civil War battle in Florida occurred near Lake City. It was called the Battle of Olustee. It was a victory for the Confederacy, but did not help win the war.
Political leaders in Florida and throughout the South considered Lincoln’s election the breaking point. If slavery were to survive, the South would have to leave the Union. In many respects, Florida remains the forgotten state of the Confederacy.
The Civil War was completely disruptive to the home front. Before the end of the conflict some 15,000 Floridians out of a population of just 78,000 whites fought in the Civil War. Some 1,209 whites and 1,044 African-Americans from Florida served in the Union Army.
23 de ago. de 2018 · The Civil War in Florida. The origins of the American Civil War are many and complex. In the early years of the 19th century, states’ rights versus central government, differing cultures between Northern and Southern states, misunderstanding and distrust, an unequal system of American tariffs & taxes, slavery and its expansion into ...
Florida’s role in the American Civil War spanned the entire conflict. From the earliest days of secession in January 1861, when war threatened to break out in Pensacola, to the final surrender of Confederate forces in Florida in May 1865, Floridians experienced all aspects of the war that the South faced as a whole: economic hardship, naval ...
