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Volume 6, Chapter 16 - Operations in West Florida, Southern Alabama, Southern Mississippi and Louisiana

Sep 2, 1861 - Destruction of United States dry-dock at Pensacola, FL
Sep 14, 1861 - Descent on Pensacola navy-yard by boats from US squadron
Oct 1, 1861 - The Department of New England constituted, under command of Maj Gen Benjamin F Butler, USA
Oct 7, 1861 - Maj Gen Braxton Bragg's command extended over the coast and State of Alabama
Oct 9, 1861 - Action on santa Rosa Island, FL
Oct 14, 1861 - The Department of Alabama and West Florida constituted, under command of Maj Gen Bragg, CS Army
Oct 18, 1861 - Maj Gen Mansfield Lovell, CS Army, supersedes Maj Gen David E Twiggs in command of Department No 1
Nov 22-23, 1861 - Bombardment of the Confederate lines about Pensacola FL
Nov 27, 1861 - The Ship Island Expedition sails from Hampton Roads, VA
Dec 3, 1861 - Ship Island, Miss. occupied by Union forces
Dec 12, 1861 - The Department of Alabama and West Florida extended to embrace Paascegonla Bay and that portion of Mississippi east of the Pascagoula River
Jan 1, 1862 - Bombardment of Forts McRee and Barraucas, Pensacola Harbor
Jan 20, 1862 - contest over the British schooner Andracita on the coast of Alabama
Jan 27, 1862 - Brig Gen Jones M Withers, CS Army, assigned to command of the Army of Mobile. Brig Gen Samuel Jones, CS Army, assigned to command of the Army of Pensacola
Feb 22, 1862 - Brig Gen Lewis G Arnold, US Army, supersedes Col Harvey Brown, 5th US Artillery, in command of the Department of Florida
Feb 23, 1862 - The Department of the Gulf constituted, under command of Maj Gen Benjamin F Butler, US Army
Feb 28, 1862 - Brig Gen Samuel Jones, CS Army, supersedes Maj Gen Bragg in command of the Department of Alabama and West Florida
Mar 8, 1862 - Col Thomas M Jones, 27th Mississippi Infantry, assigned to command at Pensacola
Mar 15, 1862 - The Department of Florida merged into the Department of the South, Maj Gen David Hunter, US Army, commanding
Mar 20, 1862 - Maj Gen Benjamin F Butler, US Army, assumes command of the Department of the Gulf
Mar 27-31, 1862 - Reconnaissance on Santa Rosa Island, FL
Apr 3-4, 1862 - Expedition from Ship Island to Biloxi and Pass Christian, Miss
Apr 7, 1862 - Affair at Saint Andrew's Bay FL
Apr 18-28, 1862 - Bombardment and capture of Forts Jackson and Saint Philip, LA
Apr 25, 1862 - New Orleans LA captured y the US Navy
Apr 27, 1862 - Fort Quitman LA abandoned by the Confederate forces. Forts Livingston, Pike, and Wood LA recpatured by Union forces
Apr 28, 1862 - Surrender of Forts Jackson and Saint Philip LA
Apr 28, 1862 - Brig Gen John H Forney, CS Army, assigned to command of the Department of Alabama and West Florida
May 1, 1862 - New Orleans LA occupied by Union forces
May 9-12, 1862 - Evacuation of Pensacola FL by the Confederates, and its occupation by Union forces

 

 

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