...n to Joseph Finegan at Tallahassee the immediately important thing to be done is the occupation of the forts and arsenals in Florida, the United States occupied the following places in the State: the Apalachicola arsenal at Chattahoochee, where there were stored a small number of arms, 5,000 pounds of powder and about 175,000 cartridges; Fort Barrancas, with 44 cannon and ammunition; Barrancas barracks, where...