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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: M82- 55
Creator: Duncan Galleries.
Title, Dates: Confederate soldiers in Pensacola photographs, 1861.
Amount: 2 photographs
Medium Included: photographs
Organization/Arrangement: Unarranged.
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Biographical/Historical:     Naval Air Station Pensacola is a United States Navy base near Warrington, Florida, on the southern tip of Escambia County. Originally called Warrington Naval Yard, the base was a strategic location during the first years of the Civil War. From 1861 to 1862, Union and Confederate troops occupied nearby forts and vied for control of the naval base.
Summary:     This collection contains two photographs taken of the Confederate Company B of the 9th Mississippi of New Orleans in a camp at the Warrington Navy Yard on the coast of the Bayou Grande in Pensacola, Florida on April 21, 1861. The photographs were found in 1972 in a scrapbook of original sketches belonging to artist C. F. Allgower, an illustrator for Harper's Weekly. The photographs are some of the earliest known Confederate subjects in Florida.
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Additional Physical Form: These images have been digitized and are available one the Florida Memory web site: https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/photographs/
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General Note: Florida Photographic Collection Number P1982-55.
Electronic Records Access: https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/photographs/
Subject Access Fields: Confederate States of America.
Civil War (Fla.)
Photographs. aat
Florida History Civil War, 1861-1865
Pensacola (Fla.)
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