FORUM - Spring 2010

Florida in the Civil War

Meet the plantation owners, slaves, soldiers, and smugglers in wartime Florida.

Some highlights:

Florida sent more men per capita to the Confederate army than any other state and became a supply depot for the South.
By Robert A. Taylor

A sunken ship brings a fiery drama to life today.
By Jon Wilson
 
Slaves, nearly 45 percent of Florida’s population, made the economy run.
By Larry Eugene Rivers
  
Read how we created an ecological mess—and how we are trying to fix it.
By Michael Grunwald.
  
Florida women held different views and had different lifestyles, but they shared hardships and hope.
By Tracy J. Revels
 
The love letters of Winston and Octavia Stephens capture the heartache of people living through a war.

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