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Author_Daniel L. Schafer
Battle of Olustee
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Civil War
Civil War in Northeast Florida
Confederate army
Daniel Schafer
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history
Jacksonville
military
military history
military strategy
North Florida
rebels
Southern history
St.Johns region
theatre of war
Thunder on the River
Union army
war
warfare
Product details
- ISBN 9780813060545
- Weight: 456g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2014
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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When the Civil War finally came to North Florida, it did so with an intermittent fury that destroyed much of Jacksonville and scattered its residents. The city was taken four separate times by Federal forces but abandoned after each of the first three occupations. During the fourth occupation, it was used as a staging ground for the ill-fated Union invasion of the Florida interior, which ended in the bloody Battle of Olustee in February 1864. This late Confederate victory, along with the deadly use of underwater mines against the U.S. Navy along the St. Johns, nearly succeeded in ending the fourth Union occupation of Jacksonville.
Writing in clear, engaging prose, Daniel Schafer sheds light on this oft-forgotten theatre of war and details the dynamic racial and cultural factors that led to Florida's engagement on behalf of the South. He investigates how fears about the black population increased and held sway over whites, seeking out the true motives behind both the state and federal initiatives that drove freed blacks from the cities back to the plantations even before the war's end.
From the Missouri Compromise to Reconstruction, Thunder on the River offers the history of a city and a region precariously situated as a major center of commerce on the brink of frontier Florida. Historians and Civil War aficionados alike will not want to miss this important addition to the literature.
Writing in clear, engaging prose, Daniel Schafer sheds light on this oft-forgotten theatre of war and details the dynamic racial and cultural factors that led to Florida's engagement on behalf of the South. He investigates how fears about the black population increased and held sway over whites, seeking out the true motives behind both the state and federal initiatives that drove freed blacks from the cities back to the plantations even before the war's end.
From the Missouri Compromise to Reconstruction, Thunder on the River offers the history of a city and a region precariously situated as a major center of commerce on the brink of frontier Florida. Historians and Civil War aficionados alike will not want to miss this important addition to the literature.
Daniel L. Schafer, Professor of History Emeritus and University Distinguished Professor at the University of North Florida, USA, is the author of several books, including Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World, Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley, and William Bartram and the Ghost Plantations of British East Florida.
