"Confederate blockade runner found in Tampa" Topic
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| Number6 | 21 May 2008 7:21 p.m. PST |
link Fits in nicely with a hypothetical campaign I'd like to run centering around Tampa Bay. |
| CLDISME | 22 May 2008 3:59 a.m. PST |
Would that be an ACW or Zombie campaign?  |
 John the OFM  | 22 May 2008 7:11 a.m. PST |
Waiting. Biding their time… |
| Doc Ord | 22 May 2008 7:21 a.m. PST |
I didn't know the Union had forces at Tampa during the ACW. I knew they were at Key West,Pensacola, & St. Augustine. Sounds like potential for a good skirmish. |
| Landorl | 22 May 2008 7:42 a.m. PST |
There was actually a small skirmish that took place in Tampa in Oct of 1863. There was a small engagement at Ballast Point when the troops that burnt the ships in the article above were returning to their ship. It would be a great skirmish as the Union troops tried to get back to their boats while the confederate cavalry tried to stop them. |
| streetline | 22 May 2008 8:40 a.m. PST |
Interesting readers comments….! |
| Mark Wals | 22 May 2008 12:16 p.m. PST |
As a side note just north of Tampa between Brookesville and Gainesville is the Dade Battlefield where about 100 US regulars were wiped out by Seminole Indians some years prior to the civil war. The troops were in march column to the Tampa fortification (Fort Brooke I believe) when they were ambushed. They have the spot identified were the soldiers cut down trees to form a triangular breastworks for a last stand. |
| Number6 | 22 May 2008 2:57 p.m. PST |
And there were apparently lots of small Union raids along the coast, targetting salt works and cattle. |
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