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On This Day in Florida Civil War History

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On This Day in Florida Civil War History

On This Day in Florida Civil War History by Nick Wynne, Joe Knetsch
2015 | ISBN: 1467118176 | English | 192 pages | PDF | 13 MB

The most southern state has more than its share of Civil War stories. In January 1861, Florida militia forces captured the old Spanish Castillo de San Marcos, then known as Fort Marion, from the single Union soldier who guarded it. In 1862, Union forces recaptured it without a single shot fired. Union general Edward Moody McCook–later minister to Hawaii–accepted the surrender of Tallahassee on May 10, 1865. On May 13, he read the Emancipation Proclamation to an assembled crowd of white Floridians and former slaves on the steps of the Knott House in the city. Authors Nick Wynne and Joe Knetsch detail a Civil War moment for each date on the calendar. Learn a lesson a day or a month at a time.