"Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida. March 1865 " Topic
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| Tango01 | 15 Mar 2015 10:24 p.m. PST |
"In the early days of 1865, with the war starting to wind down, Union Army General John Newton decided to organize an assault on the Florida state capitol, Tallahassee. He would land his troops at St. Marks and march northward to the city. Perhaps some of his motivation was to try to avenge the stinging defeat the Union Army had suffered a year earlier at Olustee.
A joint Army/Navy task force began to land Union troops near the lighthouse at the mouth of the St. Marks River on 3 March 1865. Heavy weather hampered the operations, but all forces were landed by 5 March 1865. Assisting in the operation were the Union Navy gunboats Stars and Stripes, Fort Henry, Mahaska, Honduras, Hibiscus, and Britannia. Landing parties of sailors and marines were also put ashore to capture critical bridges and occupy Confederate forces at St. Marks to prevent their interfering with the Union Army advance…"
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link Anyone have wargame this? Amicalement
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| GoodOldRebel | 16 Mar 2015 7:18 a.m. PST |
I haven't though it looks an interesting engagement |
| Col Durnford | 16 Mar 2015 1:10 p.m. PST |
When my daughter was at FSU, I made a trip to the battlefield. Very close country. The Natural Bridge part was actually an area where the stream went underground. |
| cwbuff | 18 Mar 2015 3:41 a.m. PST |
Reenactment on site the first weekend of March each year. |
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