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Robert
Watson
Watson
left Union-occupied Key West in September 1861 and he enrolled in a Florida
"Coast Guard" company at Cedar Key. In April 1862 this company was
mustered into Confederate service as Company K, Seventh Florida Infantry
Regiment. Watson's company remained along Florida's west coast, primarily
at Tampa and Point Pinellas, until late June, when it joined the Confederate
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Excerpts
from Robert Watson's Civil War diary
M76-
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"I forgot to mention that President Lincoln and some of his
cabinet were assassinated on Saturday night."
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Joshua
Hoyet Frier
On his seventeenth
birthday, May 20, 1864, Joshua Frier enrolled in a Florida militia company
that eventually became the First Florida Reserves, Company B.
The unit
remained in north Florida throughout its service. Joshua Hoyet Frier
wrote a reminiscences entitled "Reminiscences of the War Between the States
by a Boy in the Far South at Home and in the Rank of the Confederate Militia."
This selection deals with the shortage of salt during the war.
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Excerpt
describing the shortage of salt
M76-
134
"About this time some inventive person discovered that by taking up
the dirt out of the meat houses, and leaching it a fair article of salt
could be made ...A piece of pork liberally smeared with it had the appearance
of being wallowed in the mud."
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Louis
James M Boyd
This selection
is from a collection of letters written by Louis James M. Boyd to
his wife, "Jannie," from April 23, 1862 to August 1871. The couple
met in Cedar Key, Florida and later moved to Baltimore, Maryland.
Boyd served as a 3rd Assistant Engineer aboard the U.S. Gun boat "Albatross"
during the Civil War. This letter describes the destruction of the rebel
salt pans along the Florida coast.
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Letter
describing the destruction of the rebel salt pans
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"...we would leave the Ship about four O’clock in the Morning, and proceed
up the Bay until we would discover Smoke, for that is the only way that
those pans can be found by a Stranger as soon as we could get near enough
we would then fire at them with a Small Cannon we have and such Skidaddeling
you never seen in your life, they would leave everything behind them, we
went in Several of their Camps and found their Breakfast cooked and on the
Table ready for eating..."
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Florida
Convention of the People, Ordinance of Secession, 1861
Series S972
"...the
State of Florida is hereby declared a sovereign and independent Nation..."
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Parole
form for Private A. Geiger, prisoner of the Army of Northern Virginia
Series
S587
"...the
State of Florida is hereby declared a sovereign and independent Nation..."
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Oath of
allegiance to U.S. signed by Confederate soldier after Civil War
Image Number
: MA0325
"...I
will, in like manner ABIDE BY AND FAITHFULLY SUPPORT ALL LAWS AND PROCLAMATIONS
which have been made during the existing rebellion with reference to the
emancipation of slaves--SO HELP ME GOD."
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Letter
to the Governor of Florida
"...Said Oglesby
is a large able bodied man, and will make a good soldier, if he can be broken
of stealing, should the Federalists ever take him a prisoner, he is the
best man I know to break their concern, by stealing it out."
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Shoemaking
Tools
Tools
used to make soldiers' shoes during Civil War.
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Call
Family and Brevard Family Papers
Richard Keith
Call (1790-1862) was territorial governor of Florida from 1835-1840 and
again from 1841-1844. This collection contains correspondence, writings,
and other papers of Richard Keith Call and his family.
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Letter,
July 5, 1858
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Dr. John Jenkins, Hamilton, Canada, to Richard K. Call, asking
"what will be your price, as low as you can grant it to a Father" for
the freedom of Mary, Jenkins' daughter and Call's slave.
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Letter,
August 5, 1858
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Dr. John Jenkins, Hamilton, Canada, to Richard K. Call, 3 pp.:
"It is with the deepest emotions of gratitude Sir I acknowledge the receipt
of your letter, giving your consent to let me have my Daughter Mary [and
for] the moderation of your price. . . "
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Letter,
May 17, 1860
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Mary Jane
Higgins, Hamilton, to "Dear Husband" (apparently a slave of Richard Call
at Lake Jackson).
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Draft
of Letter, November 1, 1860
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Richard K. Call, Lake Jackson, to Mr. Hart (editor, Tallahassee Sentinel
newspaper), 12 pp., explicating at length his unionist, pro-slavery views.
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Letter,
December 22, 1860
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Richard K. Call, Lake Jackson, to Mr. Hart (editor, Tallahassee Sentinel
newspaper), printed as a 1-page broadside: ". . . never at any time,
or on any occasion within the last ten years, have I seen so much unanimity,
so much enthusiasm, in the support of the glorious American Union, as
on this day, appointed for its destruction by political leaders. . . ".
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Letter,
December 22, 1860
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Richard K. Call, Lake Jackson, to Mr. Hart (editor, Tallahassee Sentinel
newspaper), printed as a 1-page broadside: ". . . never at any time,
or on any occasion within the last ten years, have I seen so much unanimity,
so much enthusiasm, in the support of the glorious American Union, as
on this day, appointed for its destruction by political leaders. . . ".
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Letter,
January 26, 1861
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E. R.
Lea, Philadelphia, to "My dear Countess of Tallahassee" [Ellen Call Long],
"Your Father's views are what I expected from the friend of General Jackson;
and his name will endure as one who tried to stem the tide of a fanatical and
ill-judged revolution, when those who have inaugurated the Disunion of
their Country will have sunk to the oblivion they deserve . . . "
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Letter,
February 15, 1861
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E. R.
Lea, Philadelphia, to "My dear Friend [Ellen Call Long?], The Republican
Party, "par excellence," is composed of Old Whigs, moderate Democrats
and Americans and . . . have no intention, as they have no power, to interfere
with slavery where it now exists. . ."
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Jane Brevard
Darby scrapbook: News clipping, 1861
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1 p.,
entitled "The Secession of Florida," regarding passage of the Ordinance
of Secession.
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Letter,
August 23, 1864
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T. W.
Brevard, "Near Petersburg, Va" to "My Dear Brother" Surgeon Ephraim Brevard,
"Our beloved brother was killed two days ago (21st) in the engagement
near the Weldon Road, four miles from Petersburg. He was shot through
the head and died without a struggle."
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Ellen
Call Long diary, fragments, 1864-1865
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Reflecting
on progress of the war, race relations, and family matters.
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| NEW AND
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ON FLORIDA MEMORY |
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| Bedell Collection 126 prints of Deaconess Harriet Bedell working among the Seminole Indians in South Florida from 1933 to 1960. |
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Pets with a Florida Flair From dogs and cats, to fawns, monkeys and macaws, Floridians have shared their lives with their animal friends. |
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Postcard Collection Over 6,300 picture postcards of Florida attractions, cities, and people, circa 1900s-1970s. |
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