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Author | : Robert P. Broadwater |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2006-07-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786425415 |
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When the Civil War began in 1861, Florida--although the third state to secede from the Union--was of little strategic importance to North or South. By the end of 1863, this position had changed dramatically. For the struggling Confederacy, Florida had become a crucial source of supplies, most especially for the troops in Savannah and Charleston. President Lincoln, soon to be seeking re-election and facing immense dissatisfaction due to the course which the war had taken, was desperately seeking some method of remedying his political situation. Bringing a reconstructed Florida back into the Union, with delegates who he hoped would be friendly to the Republican cause, seemed to be an ideal solution. Thus the Union launched a last-minute endeavor to regain control of Florida, an effort that culminated in the Battle of Olustee. Compiled from primary sources such as diaries and journals, this work tells the story of the failed Union attempt to wrest control of eastern and central Florida away from the Confederacy. From the legislature to the battlefield, it details maneuvers military and political that went into the Florida campaign. The main focus of the work is the Battle of Olustee, or Ocean Pond, as it was known in the South. One of the bloodiest battles of the war with inordinately high casualties (171/2 percent for the Confederates, 35 percent for the Union), this conflict took place in February 1864 between troops commanded by Union General Truman Seymour and Confederate General Joseph Finegan. Little more than a bloody stalemate between generals who lacked significant military experience, the battle nevertheless decisively ended Union hopes of regaining Florida. Appendices provide details on the opposing armies, a list of casualties by unit and enlistment of black troops by state. Contemporary photographs and an index are also included.
Author | : William H. Nulty |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 1994-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0817307486 |
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An account of the Union defeat in Florida's most violent action (and one that seriously depleted Confederate forces in Atlanta and Charleston). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Lewis G. Schmidt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Florida |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Daniel L Schafer |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2010-01-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813047021 |
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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 | : Michael G. Anderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Command of troops |
ISBN | : 9781940804675 |
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"Although there is a considerable connection among all staff ride handbooks, the Staff Ride Handbook for the Battle of Olustee, Florida, 20 February 1864, has some significant differences from others. One of the aspects that sets the Olustee battle apart from other staff rides is the near exact parity of forces and equally favorable ground for both combatants, resulting in a battle that depended even more so than normally on the skills and application of leadership and resource management, namely logistics and physical endurance. This battle was a struggle between two forces led by leaders inexperienced at such high levels of command with many units that had never served either together or in the case of some regiments ever before in battle. It was a multi-brigade meeting engagement providing a clear, systematic tactical-level battle for analysis, though by necessity, the tactical nature limits much of the operational analysis found in some other staff rides. Though there exist significant operational-level topics to be discussed in the events leading to the tactical action, it is essentially a study of brigade- and regimental-level leadership and tactics"--
Author | : Lewis Nicholas Wynne |
Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738514918 |
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Documents in words and pictures the triumphs and tragedies faced by Florida and Floridians during the Civil War.
Author | : Douglas Egerton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2016-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465096646 |
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Almost immediately after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, abolitionists began to call for the raising of black regiments. The South and most of the North responded with outrage. Southerners vowed to enslave black soldiers captured in battle, while many northerners claimed that blacks lacked the courage to fight. Yet Boston's Brahmins, always eager for a moral crusade, launched one of the greatest experiments in American history. In Thunder at the gates, Douglas R. Egerton chronicles the formation and exploits of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry and the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry -- regiments led by whites but composed of black men born free or into slavery.
Author | : John J. Dickison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Florida |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William Eliot Furness |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Olustee, Battle of, Olustee, Fla., 1864 |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Olustee, Battle of, Olustee, Fla., 1864 |
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