![]() ![]() Below: Currier and Ives lithograph of Fort Pickens, in Pensacola Harbor, between 1860-1870. Image above: View of Confederate soldiers, Company B of the 9th Mississippi, in camp at Warrington Navy Yard, Pensacola Jay Dearborn Edwards, photographer, 1861. Union forces occupied it with 18,000 men and used the fort as a staging area for the Battle of New Orleans in 1862. Confederates abandoned the fort in September 1861. In July, the USS Union Massachusetts would engage in a brief gun battle with the cannons placed there with limited damage to either side. The fort was manned by Confederate militia just after secession in January 1861, abandoned, then remanned in June. The fort was not fully completed, but remained in use until 1903. Very little remains of Fort McRee today.įort Massachusetts - Fort built on the Mississippi side of Gulf Islands National Seashore on West Ship Island, twelve miles off the coast, from 1859 to 1866. When the Confederacy abandoned Pensacola in 1862, Fort McRee was burned. During the Civil War, Fort Barrancas was abandoned by Union forces in favor of Fort Pickens.įort McRee - Built on the east side of Perdido Key from 1834-1839, it was a three tiered fort also abandoned by the Union in favor of Fort Pickens. ![]() Yes, there were forts here even before the 1797 edition, reaching back to 1698. Yes, slaves were used in its construction.įort Barrancas - Originally the old Spanish fort named Fort San Carlos de Barrancas that was built in 1797, today's Fort Barrancas was rebuilt, with two other forts, to protect the Pensacola Navy Yard. One of only four southern forts never surrendered to the Confederates during the Civil War, despite attacks in 1861 to bring them under control. Largest of the Pensacola forts, and named for Major General Andrew Pickens of the South Carolina militia who fought in the Revolution at Cowpens and the Siege of Ninety-Six. Fort Pickens - Historic fort built from 1829-1834 on Santa Rosa Island. ![]()
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