Florida Memory, Division of Library and Information Services
Florida Memory, Division of Library & Information Services

Timeline of Florida in the Civil War

1862

FebruaryMarch

Due to defeats in Tennessee, most Confederate troops were withdrawn from Florida.

March 4

Northern troops occupied Fernandina.

March 1112

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 13

A Federal force landed on the St. Johns River below Jacksonville and forced the Confederates at St. Johns Bluff to abandon their positions.