Thunder on the river :: the Civil War in northeast Florida /

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 wa...

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1. Verfasser: Schafer, Daniel L.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2010]
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Zusammenfassung: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 f.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 348 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-329) and index.
ISBN:9780813037424
0813037425
9780813047027
0813047021

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