Jan. 10, 1861 - Florida secedes from Union.. April 12, 1861 - Civil War begins with Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in South Carolina.. July 7, 1861 - Fort Marion in St. Augustine captured by ...

The war got an early start in Florida. On Jan. 4 1861, Gov. Madison Starke Perry ordered the state militia to seize Fort Marion (now the Castillo de San Marcos) in St. Augustine.

This week marks the 150th anniversary of the start of Florida's involvement in the Civil War. Who cares? After all, that was a long time ago. Plus, most of us are from somewhere else and Florida'… ...

Florida’s U.S. Senator, ... After the Civil War, Yulee’s Fernandina Beach prospered with its maritime shipping and shrimping industry, and beginning in the 1880s, ...

In part two of our three-part look at Florida in the Civil War, we are showing how the state played a much larger role than many realize.In fact, the late Civil War historian Shelby Foote told ...

This summer on Florida’s Northeast coast, Scott Fais discovers you can go back in time 150 years to the civil war era, after dark.

Olustee, Florida—Lugging their private artillery pieces behind their pick-up trucks, heavy-weapons hobbyists drive days to get to the annual celebration of the Civil War Battle of Olustee ...

Florida did not sit out of the Civil War. In fact, it was the third state to leave, after South Carolina and Mississippi. It now is the most “northern” of the southern states. But in 1860, the ...

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Each January, Hernando County scrambled to put out the welcome mat for what has been called the largest Civil War reenactment in Florida — the Brooksville Raid.… ...