Pensacola, FL

Place Unit Type
City or Town
Containing Unit
Escambia County, FL
Date Type
- Confederate forces evacuate Pensacola, Florida burning installations and stores before leaving Battles/Soldiers
Fugitive slave stowaway Columbus Jones returned to the South from Massachusetts Slavery/Abolition
- On the Florida coast, Union artillery and navy ships bombard Confederate positions around Pensacola Battles/Soldiers
- On the Florida coast, Union sailors and marines raid Pensacola and destroy a Confederate warship there Battles/Soldiers
President Lincoln forms two new Army Departments in the South Battles/Soldiers
Burial Place of
Name Type
Fort Barrancas, FL Location or Site
Date Title
Charleston (SC) Mercury, “A Fugitive Slave Returned to Florida,” May 18, 1859
New Orleans (LA) Picayune, "Untitled," November 25, 1859
Charleston (SC) Courier, “The Hyannis Case,” December 15, 1859
Charleston (SC) Mercury, "Federal Troops in the South," November 20, 1860
Cleveland (OH) Herald, “What Does It All Mean?,” April 9, 1861
Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "Alarming News," April 11, 1861
Col. Harvey Brown to Gen. Lorenzo Thomas, November 25, 1861
Gen. Braxton Bragg, Congratulation on the November 22-23, 1861 Florida bombardment, November 25, 1861
Acting Brigadier General Thomas M. Jones, CSA to the people of Pensacola, Florida
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