[ncalburt]

My mothers family fought in the FL militia in Pensacola .
He survived the Battle of New Orleans and injured went home .
My great grandmother told me the east coast of Fl survived the hell of Northern reconstruction because the much of the east coast of Fl was intentionally officially named mosquito county which terrified the Yankees .
In 1960, the federal govt forced her to sell her family farm in a deal she lost in court which is now one of the abandoned Kennedy Space center launching pads.
My first cousin told me (he works on the base ) the farm house foundation is still there . The Old Union federal govt is a monster that keeps destroying.

[yarddog]

The largest battle fought in Florida was Olustee, near Jacksonville.

As Civil War Battles go it was not a huge one but every soldier who fought in it described it as the most fierce fighting they had been in and a lot of them had been in some hot battles. It was a Confederate victory.