Fort Pickens is a pentagonal historic United States military fort on Santa Rosa Island in the Pensacola, Florida, area. It is named after American Revolutionary...
18 KB (2,178 words) - 08:55, 8 March 2024
Wilkinson Pickens, that he was sending supply ships, which resulted in an ultimatum from the Confederate government for the immediate evacuation of Fort Sumter...
53 KB (6,638 words) - 21:42, 6 August 2024
defense of Pensacola Bay, Fort McRee was accompanied by Fort Pickens, located across Pensacola Pass on Santa Rosa Island, and Fort Barrancas, located across...
14 KB (2,051 words) - 18:50, 22 August 2023
Battle of Santa Rosa Island (redirect from Battle of Fort Pickens)
9, 1861) was an unsuccessful Confederate attempt to take Union-held Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island, Florida. Santa Rosa Island is a 40-mile barrier...
8 KB (769 words) - 08:22, 29 April 2024
abandoned Fort Barrancas and defended Fort Pickens; Barrancas was taken over by Confederates; the fort was bombarded from Union-held Fort Pickens on Santa...
18 KB (1,939 words) - 17:21, 23 August 2024
in the attack on the fort at the City of Vera Cruz. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he was part of a plan to hold Fort Pickens, near Pensacola, Florida...
52 KB (7,115 words) - 11:51, 27 July 2024
delivered January 31, 1861, South Carolina Governor Pickens demanded of President Buchanan that he surrender Fort Sumter because "I regard that possession is...
42 KB (4,632 words) - 04:10, 27 August 2024
demanded the surrender of Fort Pickens at Pensacola, Florida and of its U.S. Army garrison. Chase had designed and constructed the fort while he was a captain...
30 KB (3,725 words) - 02:24, 3 January 2024
Pensacola Beach, Florida (section Fort Pickens)
constructed on Santa Rosa Island in 1722 near the location of the more recent Fort Pickens. Hurricanes in 1741 and 1752 forced its relocation to the mainland. Pensacola...
37 KB (3,131 words) - 17:59, 26 August 2024
Thomas Boone Pickens Jr. (May 22, 1928 – September 11, 2019) was an American business magnate and financier. Pickens chaired the hedge fund BP Capital...
56 KB (6,043 words) - 09:24, 4 August 2024
parents were Andrew Pickens Sr. and Anne (née Davis). But his paternal great-grandparents were ethnic French Huguenots: Robert Andrew Pickens (Robert André...
18 KB (1,884 words) - 13:54, 23 August 2024
Union force with horses for raiding. The fort remained in Federal hands throughout the war. Considering Fort Pickens to be outdated, the U.S. War Department...
11 KB (977 words) - 01:44, 20 August 2024
the state, though the Union retained control of Key West, Fort Jefferson, and Fort Pickens for the duration of the conflict. The Confederate strategy...
73 KB (8,115 words) - 21:53, 17 August 2024
Fort Hill, also known as the John C. Calhoun House and Library, is a National Historic Landmark on the Clemson University campus in Pickens County, South...
9 KB (807 words) - 18:55, 22 July 2024
visitors: Johnson Beach area on Perdido Key Fort Barrancas area on the Naval Air Station in Pensacola Fort Pickens area on East Pensacola Beach Gulf Breeze...
15 KB (1,393 words) - 01:53, 29 June 2024
next presidio was on western Santa Rosa Island near the site of present Fort Pickens, but hurricanes battered the island in 1741 and 1752. The garrison was...
92 KB (7,989 words) - 08:32, 30 August 2024
Battle of Pensacola (1861) (category American Civil War forts in Florida)
seceded from the Union, the garrison evacuated Fort Barrancas to the dilapidated but more defensible Fort Pickens. Over the next several months, both sides...
6 KB (639 words) - 23:09, 20 May 2024
Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War (section Election of 1860 to the Battle of Fort Sumter)
President of the United States in 1860 and culminating in the capture of Fort Sumter in April 1861. Scholars have identified many different causes for...
158 KB (5,977 words) - 16:56, 2 August 2024
April 7, 1807. Pickens's gravestone uses the 1807 date. He was the son of former Gov. Andrew Pickens and a grandson of Gen. Andrew Pickens, an American...
14 KB (1,228 words) - 18:28, 19 July 2024
the relief of Fort Pickens, Florida. President Abraham Lincoln had attempted to countermand the order sending the Powhatan to Fort Pickens and send the...
12 KB (1,236 words) - 16:42, 8 July 2023
Geronimo (category Native Americans imprisoned at Fort Marion)
prisoners to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. The Army held them there for about six weeks before they were sent to Fort Pickens in Pensacola,...
72 KB (8,297 words) - 13:13, 27 August 2024
to be used for training cadets. These two guns are preserved today at Fort Pickens near Pensacola, Florida and Battery Chamberlin at the Presidio of San...
26 KB (2,958 words) - 06:43, 4 August 2024
Seminole War Fort - (originally called Fort Moultrie which was located 6 miles west of St. Augustine). Fort Pickens Fort Picolata Fort Pierce - Second...
14 KB (1,541 words) - 22:47, 13 May 2024
sailed on to Pensacola, Florida. Her troops and supplies reinforced Fort Pickens, which the Union was able to use as a base throughout the Civil War....
71 KB (4,515 words) - 10:50, 22 August 2024
three historic U.S. forts, Fort Barrancas, Fort Pickens, and Fort McRee. Barrancas National Cemetery is located here. The city and Fort Barrancas were the...
54 KB (6,115 words) - 05:48, 15 August 2024
Fighting on the Union side in the Civil War, he took part in the relief of Fort Pickens, followed by many engagements on the Lower Mississippi, before being...
10 KB (1,110 words) - 14:56, 23 June 2024
Castillo de San Marcos (redirect from Fort marion)
including his wife. Geronimo was sent to Fort Pickens, in violation of his agreed terms of surrender. While at the fort, many of the prisoners had to camp in...
43 KB (5,046 words) - 02:56, 29 June 2024
retained control of the military installations at Fort Sumter and Fort Pickens. Scott advised evacuating the forts on the grounds that an attempted re-supply...
100 KB (11,669 words) - 07:08, 13 August 2024
Confederate soldiers from attacking Fort Pickens by land. Wyandotte took part in the nighttime reinforcement of Fort Pickens on 12 April 1861, the day the American...
9 KB (984 words) - 14:58, 20 November 2022
county seat is Pickens. The county was created in 1826. It is part of the Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area. Pickens County was...
38 KB (3,353 words) - 02:17, 4 August 2024