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A captivating history of the Civil War in northeast Florida
“Captures in rich detail the competition between the Confederates and Unionists, blacks and whites, and civilians and soldiers in the region. An enchanting and illuminating story told through compelling and persuasive prose.”–Aaron Sheehan-Dean, creator of Why Confederates Fought
“A fast-paced social history of the Civil War in northeastern Florida.”–John David Smith, editor of Black Soldiers in Blue
When the Civil War after all came to North Florida, it did so with an intermittent fury that destroyed much of Jacksonville and scattered its residents. The city used to be taken four separate times by Federal forces but abandoned after each and every of the first three occupations. All over the fourth occupation, it used to be used as a staging ground for the ill-fated Union invasion of the Florida interior, which ended in the bloody Battle of Olustee in February 1864. This late Confederate victory, along side the deadly use of underwater mines against the U.S. Navy along the St. Johns, nearly succeeded in ending the fourth Union occupation of Jacksonville.
Writing in clear, engaging prose, Daniel Schafer sheds light on this oft-forgotten theatre of war and details the dynamic racial and cultural factors that led to Florida’s engagement on behalf of the South. He investigates how fears about the black population increased and held sway over whites, seeking out the true motives in the back of both the state and federal initiatives that drove freed blacks from the cities back to the plantations even before the war’s end.
From the Missouri Compromise to Reconstruction, Thunder on the River offers the history of a city and a region precariously situated as a major center of commerce on the point of frontier Florida. Historians and Civil War aficionados alike will not need to miss this important addition to the literature.
“Captures in rich detail the competition between the Confederates and Unionists, blacks and whites, and civilians and soldiers in the region. An enchanting and illuminating story told through compelling and persuasive prose.”–Aaron Sheehan-Dean, creator of Why Confederates Fought
“A fast-paced social history of the Civil War in northeastern Florida.”–John David Smith, editor of Black Soldiers in Blue
When the Civil War after all came to North Florida, it did so with an intermittent fury that destroyed much of Jacksonville and scattered its residents. The city used to be taken four separate times by Federal forces but abandoned after each and every of the first three occupations. All over the fourth occupation, it used to be used as a staging ground for the ill-fated Union invasion of the Florida interior, which ended in the bloody Battle of Olustee in February 1864. This late Confederate victory, along side the deadly use of underwater mines against the U.S. Navy along the St. Johns, nearly succeeded in ending the fourth Union occupation of Jacksonville.
Writing in clear, engaging prose, Daniel Schafer sheds light on this oft-forgotten theatre of war and details the dynamic racial and cultural factors that led to Florida’s engagement on behalf of the South. He investigates how fears about the black population increased and held sway over whites, seeking out the true motives in the back of both the state and federal initiatives that drove freed blacks from the cities back to the plantations even before the war’s end.
From the Missouri Compromise to Reconstruction, Thunder on the River offers the history of a city and a region precariously situated as a major center of commerce on the point of frontier Florida. Historians and Civil War aficionados alike will not need to miss this important addition to the literature.
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