Fort McRee was a historic military fort constructed by the United States on the eastern tip of Perdido Key to defend Pensacola and its important natural...
14 KB (2,051 words) - 18:50, 22 August 2023
troops. Fort Pickens was the largest of a group of fortifications designed to defend Pensacola Harbor. It supplemented Fort Barrancas, Fort McRee, and the...
18 KB (2,178 words) - 16:44, 9 October 2024
Perdido Key (section Fort McRee)
Construction began in 1831 on Fort McRee at the eastern end of the island, as part of the defenses for Pensacola Bay. The fort was damaged in the Civil War...
19 KB (2,588 words) - 16:48, 12 August 2024
Battle of Pensacola (1861) (category American Civil War forts in Florida)
November, the Niagara resumed its attack on Fort McRee as did the cannons at Fort Pickens. The guns of Fort McRee remained silent. The end of fighting that...
6 KB (639 words) - 23:09, 20 May 2024
Lisa McRee (born November 9, 1961) is an American television journalist and news anchor, of the Emmy Award Winning LA TIMES TODAY. Born in Fort Worth,...
3 KB (353 words) - 14:21, 3 July 2024
William McRee was an officer in the United States Army and later a Surveyor General of the United States. Fort McRee was named in his honor. McRee was born...
3 KB (348 words) - 23:42, 3 June 2024
Infantry Regiment. His first notable action was to command the defense of Fort McRee, guarding Pensacola harbor, during the bombardment of November 22, 1861...
7 KB (781 words) - 05:20, 25 January 2022
William McRee (1788–1833), United States Army officer Fort McRee, American Civil War fort in Florida This page lists people with the surname McRee. If an...
293 bytes (84 words) - 23:36, 22 December 2021
named George S. Storrs and a Tennesseean named St. Clair Morgan, near Fort McRee at Pensacola, Florida on the night of March 20, 1861. The weapons were...
18 KB (1,983 words) - 16:29, 2 October 2024
troops landed east of Fort Pickens but was repelled by Union forces. Fort McRee and Fort Barrancas exchanged heavy cannon fire with Fort Pickens on November...
18 KB (1,939 words) - 11:34, 8 September 2024
Fort. Fort Maitland Fort Mason Fort Matanzas Fort McCoy (formerly Fort MacKay) Fort McNeil, north bank of Taylor Creek, Orange County Fort McRee Fort...
14 KB (1,541 words) - 22:47, 13 May 2024
in the American Civil War Floridan aquifer Forgotten Coast Fort Barrancas Fort McRee Fort Pickens Gulf Wind National Naval Aviation Museum Sunset Limited...
35 KB (3,848 words) - 03:05, 10 October 2024
Florida#Novelty houses, a dome home built to withstand 133 m/s winds Fort Pickens Fort McRee "The Spanish Presence in Northwest Florida – 1513 to 1705" (history)...
11 KB (977 words) - 07:58, 31 August 2024
on the mainland, Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island, and Fort McRee of Foster's Bank (now the eastern end of Perdido Key). Fort McRee was damaged in the...
17 KB (2,204 words) - 08:41, 30 October 2023
engineered by William McRee who had just graduated from West Point. During the American Civil War, it became one of three Confederate forts that defended Savannah...
4 KB (361 words) - 23:58, 25 April 2024
Maria de Galve (1698–1719): the presidio included fort San Carlos de Austria (east of present Fort Barrancas) and a village with church; Presidio Isla...
92 KB (7,987 words) - 23:26, 9 October 2024
construction of Fort Pickens in 1834 at the western end of Santa Rosa Island; completed Fort McRee in 1839, and completed redesign and expansion of Fort Barrancas...
4 KB (469 words) - 15:43, 29 September 2024
1861, the artillery duel with Fort McRee and other shore batteries in Pensacola Bay on 22 November, the passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and the...
4 KB (466 words) - 04:09, 8 April 2021
picnic shelters, restrooms, showers, and seasonal lifeguards. The site of Fort McRee is located at the eastern tip of Johnson Beach and is accessible by boat...
21 KB (2,497 words) - 16:36, 12 August 2024
pounds (9,100 kg) of gunpowder at Fort McRee. He then spiked the guns at Fort Barrancas and moved his force to Fort Pickens. Braxton Bragg commanded the...
73 KB (8,115 words) - 18:00, 12 September 2024
33rd Alabama Infantry Regiment (section Ft. McRee)
at Fort McRee, which sat at the entrance to Pensacola Bay, Florida, opposite the Federal-held Fort Pickens. By the time the 33rd arrived, Ft. McRee had...
199 KB (24,689 words) - 02:37, 30 May 2024
the East Gulf Blockading Squadron. She engaged Confederate defenses at Fort McRee, Pensacola, and Warrington on 22 November, and was hulled twice above...
10 KB (1,016 words) - 14:04, 11 January 2024
The area was formerly a separate islet known as Foster's Bank, where Fort McRee was built. "National Register Information System". National Register of...
2 KB (120 words) - 08:58, 20 August 2023
the facilities to rubble. At the time, they also abandoned Fort Barrancas and Fort McRee. After the war, the ruins at the yard were cleared away and...
43 KB (5,167 words) - 00:07, 29 July 2024
Districts of North Carolina. Captain Griffith John McRee became the namesake for the 1836 Union Fort McRee in Pensacola Florida. Other known captains included:...
5 KB (532 words) - 20:07, 12 July 2024
Fort McRee; Mobile Bay, Alabama: Fort Morgan, Fort Gaines; New Orleans, Louisiana: Fort Massachusetts, Fort Pike, Fort Wood (later Fort Macomb), Fort...
83 KB (10,630 words) - 11:34, 14 September 2024
overall command of General Braxton Bragg. When the Confederates abandoned Fort McRee after the Battle of Pensacola, Colonel Thomas H. Jones of the 27th Regiment...
9 KB (940 words) - 01:10, 8 June 2024
1861-1865 – via FamilySearch. Horres, C. Russell (2001). "An Affair of Honor at Fort Sumter". South Carolina Historical Magazine. 102 (1). Charleston: South Carolina...
14 KB (851 words) - 19:26, 22 June 2024
Hillsborough 33547 Fort McCoy 1 Marion 32134 Fort McRee 1 Escambia Fort Mason 1 Lake Fort Matanzas 1 St. Johns Fort Matanzas National Monument...
11 KB (94 words) - 00:29, 11 March 2023
Lieutenant Adam J. Slemmer still held Fort Pickens, and the next day Erben and men from Supply broke into Fort McRee, and destroyed some 20,000 pounds of...
9 KB (926 words) - 04:18, 18 January 2024