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Related Historical Markers
St. Augustine National Cemetery
Library of Congress
Marker detail: Fort Marion, c. 1863
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| On Marine Street, 0.1 miles south of St. Francis Street, on the right when traveling south. |
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Civil War St. Augustine
Florida seceded from the Union in January 1861. Confederate troops then captured Fort Marion, which was built in St. Augustine in the late 1600s as Castillo de San Marcos. By early 1862, the fall of Nashville, . . . — — Map (db m127667) HM |
| On Marine Street, 0.1 miles south of St. Francis Street, on the right when traveling south. |
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Civil War Dead
An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War between April 1861 and April 1865. As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury fallen Union . . . — — Map (db m127668) HM |
| On Marine Street north of San Salvador Street (Road 0), on the left when traveling north. |
| | On December 28, 1835, during the Second Seminole War, a column of 108 U.S. Army soldiers dispatched from Fort Brooke (Tampa) to relieve the detachment at Fort King (Ocala) was surprised by a strong force of Seminole Indians near Bushnell in Sumter . . . — — Map (db m77413) HM |
| Near Marine Street north of San Salvador Street, on the left when traveling north. |
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These three pyramids cover vaults containing the individually unidentified remains of 1468 soldiers of the Florida Indian Wars
1835-1842
The Florida Indian Wars began with the murder of an Indian agent at Fort King on December 25, 1835. . . . — — Map (db m77411) HM WM |
May. 18, 2024