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Browsing named entities in Col. J. J. Dickison, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.2, Florida (ed. Clement Anselm Evans). You can also browse the collection for January 5th or search for January 5th in all documents.
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Col. J. J. Dickison, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.2, Florida (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2 : (search)
Chapter 2:
Federal strength in Florida
reinforcement of Fort Pickens
Confederate troops called out for Pensacola
destruction of the Judah
fight on Santa Rosa island
bombardment of Fort McRee
evacuation of Pensacola
other events of the period.
When on January 5th Senator Yulee wrote from Washington 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 there was a field battery; Fort Pickens, equipped with 201 cannon with ammunition; Fort McRee, 125 seacoast and garrison cannon; Fort Taylor, Key West, with 60 cannon; Key West barracks, 4 cannon; Fort Marion, 6 field batteries and some small arms; and Fort Jeffer