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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 4: military operations in Western Virginia, and on the sea-coast (search)
na, 110. stirring events near Pensacola Wilson's Zouaves on Santa Rosa Island attacked, 111. battle on Santa Rosa Island, and repulse of tSanta Rosa Island, and repulse of the Confederates the Confedeates before Fort Pickens, 112. attack by Fort Pickens and War-vessels on the Confederate works folly of Hollins Pensacola in the spring of 1861, and the arrival in June, at Santa Rosa Island (on which the fort stands), of the New York Sixth, known as Wey made an attempt to surprise and capture Wilson's troops on Santa Rosa Island. About fourteen hundred picked men, chosen mostly from Georgo o'clock in the morning October 9. landed at Deer Point, on Santa Rosa Island, four or five miles eastward of the encampment of the Zouaves canopy of boughs and shrubs, to protect it from the hot sun. Santa Rosa Island is a long and narrow sand-bank, with an average width of aboutry, as was the Island of Santa Rosa. So ended the battle of Santa Rosa Island. Fort Pickens had been silent during the entire summer and