Book Description
Documents in words and pictures the triumphs and tragedies faced by Florida and Floridians during the Civil War.
Author : Lewis Nicholas Wynne
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738514918
Documents in words and pictures the triumphs and tragedies faced by Florida and Floridians during the Civil War.
Author : Daniel L Schafer
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 2010-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0813047021
When the Civil War finally came to North Florida, it did so with an intermittent fury that destroyed much of Jacksonville and scattered its residents. The city was taken four separate times by Federal forces but abandoned after each of the first three occupations. During the fourth occupation, it was used as a staging ground for the ill-fated Union invasion of the Florida interior, which ended in the bloody Battle of Olustee in February 1864. This late Confederate victory, along with the deadly use of underwater mines against the U.S. Navy along the St. Johns, nearly succeeded in ending the fourth Union occupation of Jacksonville. Writing in clear, engaging prose, Daniel Schafer sheds light on this oft-forgotten theatre of war and details the dynamic racial and cultural factors that led to Florida’s engagement on behalf of the South. He investigates how fears about the black population increased and held sway over whites, seeking out the true motives behind both the state and federal initiatives that drove freed blacks from the cities back to the plantations even before the war's end. From the Missouri Compromise to Reconstruction, Thunder on the River offers the history of a city and a region precariously situated as a major center of commerce on the brink of frontier Florida. Historians and Civil War aficionados alike will not want to miss this important addition to the literature.
Author : Woodburne Potter
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,21 MB
Release : 1836
Category : Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842
ISBN :
Army officer's account of the 2nd Seminole War, focusing on the specific campaigns of Colonel Joseph M. White, Genera Duncan L. Clinch, and Colonel James Gadsden, as well as an analysis of what the author believed to be the causes of the war.
Author : John Titcomb Sprague
Publisher :
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 26,25 MB
Release : 1848
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Daniel R. Weinfeld
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 2012-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0817317457
Explains why citizens of Jackson County, Florida, slaughtered close to one hundred of their neighbors during the Reconstruction period following the end of the Civil War; focusing on the Freedman's Bureau, the development of African-American political leadership, and the emergence of white "Regulators."
Author : Woodburne Potter
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 23,14 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842
ISBN :
Author : Joe Knetsch
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 29,35 MB
Release : 2003-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1439614016
Years before the first shots of the Civil War were fired, Florida witnessed a clash of wills and ways that prompted three wars unlike any others in America's history. Among the most well-known of Florida's native peoples, the Seminole Indians frustrated troops of militia and volunteer soldiers for decades during the first half of the nineteenth century in the ongoing struggle to keep hold of their ancestral lands. While careers and reputations of American military and political leaders were made and destroyed in the mosquito-infested swamps of Florida's interior, the Seminoles and their allies, including the Miccosukee tribe and many escaped slaves, managed to wage war on their own terms. The study of guerrilla warfare tactics employed by the Seminoles may have aided modern American forces fighting in Viet Nam, Cambodia, and other regions.
Author : Confederate Muster Rolls Survey. Florida
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Florida
ISBN :
Author : Nick Wynne
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 29,5 MB
Release : 2011-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1614231427
Few realize what a vital role World War II and Florida played in each other's history. The war helped Florida move past its southern conservative mentality and emerge as a sophisticated society, and thousands of military men were trained under Florida's sunny skies. Here are stories from some of the one hundred military bases, including Tyndall Field, where Clark Gable trained, and Eglin Air Force Base, where Doolittle planned his raid on Tokyo. Read about Camp Gordon Johnston, referred to as "Hell by the Sea," built in a swampy, snake-infested subtropical jungle, and uncover the secrets of "Station J," a base that monitored the transmissions of German U-boats prowling off the coast. This fascinating collaboration between historians Nick Wynne and Richard Moorhead reveals the lasting impact of World War II on Florida as the United States heads into the seventieth anniversary of its entry into the war.
Author : Anthony E Dixon
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781917116947