Florida in the Civil War
Title | Florida in the Civil War PDF eBook |
Author | Lewis Nicholas Wynne |
Publisher | Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738514918 |
Documents in words and pictures the triumphs and tragedies faced by Florida and Floridians during the Civil War.
Thunder on the River
Title | Thunder on the River PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel L Schafer |
Publisher | University Press of Florida |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2010-01-03 |
Genre | 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.
The War in Florida
Title | The War in Florida PDF eBook |
Author | Woodburne Potter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 1836 |
Genre | 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.
The Origin, Progress, and Conclusion of the Florida War
Title | The Origin, Progress, and Conclusion of the Florida War PDF eBook |
Author | John Titcomb Sprague |
Publisher | |
Pages | 570 |
Release | 1848 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The Jackson County War
Title | The Jackson County War PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel R. Weinfeld |
Publisher | University of Alabama Press |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2012-03-19 |
Genre | 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."
The War in Florida
Title | The War in Florida PDF eBook |
Author | Woodburne Potter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 1940 |
Genre | Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842 |
ISBN |
Florida's Seminole Wars
Title | Florida's Seminole Wars PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Knetsch |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2003-04-30 |
Genre | 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.