FLORIDA  CIVIL  WAR  TIMELINE 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865

1862 February-March – Due to defeats in Tennessee, most Confederate troops were withdrawn from Florida.   March              4 –  Northern troops occupied Fernandina.   March       11-12 –  St. Augustine and Jacksonville were occupied by Union troops.  Jacksonville was occupied four different times during the war, while St. Augustine remained in Union hands for the rest of the war.   October         1-3 –  A Federal force landed on the St. Johns River below Jacksonville and forced the Confederates at St. Johns Bluff to abandon their positions.

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