
A Wilderness of Destruction
Confederate Guerillas in East and South Florida, 1861-1865
Zack C. Waters(Author)
Mercer University Press
Published on 2. May 2023
Book
Hardback
255 pages
978-0-88146-881-6 (ISBN)
Description
Modern historians have consistently treated Florida as a military backwater. Despite that assessment, Rebel guerrillas blocked repeated Union attempts to establish a stronghold in the Florida's interior. After the ""abandonment"" of Florida by the Confederate government, in early 1862, Gov. John Milton organized guerrilla units to protect the state's citizens. These irregular companies kept Union forces largely confined to a few coastal outposts (St. Augustine, Fernandina, and Ft. Myers), though the state's citizens suffered greatly from the depredations of Unionist units. After the Federals capture of Vicksburg, the South's only significant source of beef were the vast herds in Florida. It fell to the state's Rebel partisans to protect the state's interior, thereby keeping open routes for the delivery of longhorns to the South's major armies. Skirmishes and battles raged throughout Florida, but the flow of beef cattle halted only after Appomattox. This book should be of interest to those researching the Civil War and Florida history. Also, local historians studying cities such as Tampa, Jacksonville, or more rural areas, will find a wealth of information in this volume.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Georgia
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
581 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88146-881-6 (9780881468816)
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Zack C. Waters, a native of Ocala, Florida, is a former attorney, teacher, and college professor who has written several books and more than thirty published articles on the Civil War. He lives in Rome, Georgia.