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FLORIDA
CIVIL WAR TIMELINE
1860
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February 21 - |
A small Confederate force attacked Union-held Fort Myers, but was
repulsed. The Battle of Fort Myers was perhaps the southernmost
battle of the Civil War.
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March 6 - |
Union soldiers were defeated by the Confederates at the Battle of
Natural Bridge. Among the Confederate defenders were old men
and cadets from the West Florida Seminary (now Florida State University).
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April
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Governor John Milton committed suicide at his home near Marianna.
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April 9 - |
General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army of Northern Virginia
(including a number of Florida soldiers) to Union General Ulysses
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April 14- |
John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln.
Lewis Thornton Powell, alias Payne, the Florida native who was
part of Booth's conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln, Vice
President Johnson and Secretary of State Seward, carried out his
portion of the plot on the evening of April 14. Posing as
a delivery man, Powell entered the home of Secretary of State William
Seward and attacked the bedridden official with a knife inflicting
serious but not fatal wounds.
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April 26- |
Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered the last major
Confederate Army near Durham Station, North Carolina.
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May
10 - |
Union General E. M. McCook accepted the formal surrender of Confederate
troops at Tallahassee. During the remainder to the month smaller groups
of Confederates surrendered throughout the state.
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