This letter was written by Jefferson Davis to Gov. John Milton to notify Milton that Robert E. Lee has been assigned to command the confederate forces in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
This article offers a Union perspective on the Battle of Olustee, Florida. It was featured in the Peninsula Newspaper on March 3, 1864 and copied from the New South Newspaper,
Item is a black and white photoprint illustration of men lowering a horse from a ship. Accompanying note reads, "Reinforcement of Fort Pickens - Horses slung into the sea to be towed ashore at Santa Rosa Island." Illustration is from Frank Leslie's…
Top image caption: "The war in Florida - The crew of the U.S. steamer Stars and Stripes, in the captured schooner Carolina Gertrude, at [Ochlockonee] River, engaging the dismounted rebel cavalry on shore. -From a sketch by paymaster John J. Pratt,…