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Why Tallhassee to USA in 1864 campaign

Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:23 am

If I'm reading my history right, the USA never took Tallahassee during the war. Why is it in union possesion in the 1864 campaign? I noticed this a while back, but just had the thought today.

"The Battle of Natural Bridge was a battle during the American Civil War, fought in what is now Woodville, Florida, near Tallahassee, on March 6, 1865. A small band of Confederate troops and volunteers, mostly composed of teenagers from the nearby university that would later become Florida State University, and the elderly, protected by breastworks, prevented Union troops from crossing the Natural Bridge on the St. Marks River. This action prevented the Union from capturing the Florida capital and made Tallahassee the only Confederate capital east of the Mississippi River not to be captured by Union forces during the war."

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