Marianna,Florida

[Podad]

I went through there about a week after Michael did. It was really bad in that area

 

[bdtex]

Went to Saint Lukes Episcopal Cemetery again to look at it and find something I missed last time.

 

[bdtex]

The wartime Governor of Florida,John Milton,II is buried at Saint Lukes Episcopal Cemetery. Put a pistol to his head and killed himself on April 1,1865.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8823596/john-milton

 

[bdtex]

Revisited Riverside Cemetery in Marianna too. Missed something the first time. Lt. Isaac Adams,2nd Maine Cavalry, was killed in the Battle Of Marianna and buried in Riverside Cemetery.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25516058/isaac-adams

 

[bdtex]

There were a couple of Confederate gravestones near Lt. Adams that I missed the first time too:

 

[bdtex]

I went through there about a week after Michael did. It was really bad in that area

Yep. Trees down everywhere. Gonna take a long time to clean and fix up the whole area.

 

[DRW]

The wartime Governor of Florida,John Milton,II is buried at Saint Lukes Episcopal Cemetery. Put a pistol to his head and killed himself on April 1,1865.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8823596/john-milton

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Just be aware that some Panhandle history buffs, including Milton family members, insist that Gov. John Milton's death resulted from an accidental discharge while cleaning his gun.

 

[Drew]

Just be aware that some Panhandle history buffs, including Milton family members, insist that Gov. John Milton's death resulted from an accidental discharge while cleaning his gun.

Why, @DRW , this is the best you've got?

I thought of your book, reading a CWT thread about Marianna, Florida. I'll just bet the governor put something through his head, accident or no.

This place was huge mess, after the War.

 

[Tom Elmore]

Company E, 8th Florida evidently recruited in the county; a number of local residents served at Gettysburg, including:

Henry S. Stone enlisted at Marianna on May 13, 1862 at the age of 18. As a member of Company E, 8th Florida he was wounded in the right leg at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, and captured. On July 25 he was admitted to the West's Buildings General Hospital in Baltimore and paroled on September 25. Transferred to City Point, Virginia, he was sent on September 28 to the Receiving and Wayside Hospital in Richmond and the following day was admitted to the Florida Hospital, where he received clothing. He died in January 1901 in Jackson County; his wife Millie Musgrove filed a pension application in 1902.

Charles B. Pledger was born on November 12, 1837 in Jackson County, and enlisted in Company E, 8th Florida on May 12, 1862. He was wounded in the left knee and right ankle at Gettysburg, and captured the same day (July 2). His pension application was made in 1903.

Jesse W. Bailey of Company E, 8th Florida was captured at Gettysburg, probably in a field hospital, as he was sick at the time. He was forwarded to Fort Delaware.

John J. Croom of Marianna was another member of Company E, 8th Florida who was captured on July 3 at Gettysburg, and wound up at Fort Delaware.

Another Marianna resident was William Howard of Company F, 2nd Florida, who was captured at Gettysburg on July 3 and sent to Fort Delaware.

James W. Smith was a Marianna resident who served in Company H, 5th Florida, and was likewise captured at Gettysburg on July 3 and sent to Fort Delaware.

Sources:
-Pension applications.
-Compiled service records.
-Florida Men Imprisoned at Fort Delaware, Papers 1861-1949, a list used by Lt. Alexander Calvin Martin to muster his fellow Florida prisoners for their rations, Historical Museum of Southern Florida, Miami.

 

[DRW]

Why, @DRW , this is the best you've got?

I thought of your book, reading a CWT thread about Marianna, Florida. I'll just bet the governor put something through his head, accident or no.

This place was huge mess, after the War.

That's the best I've got after midnight on a Saturday night . I'll add more when/if I have time!

 

[jackt62]

This looks like an interesting place to visit. I have been across I-10 in the panhandle several times but was unaware of this town. If I ever get to the area again, would certainly pay a visit.

 

[DRW]

Why, @DRW , this is the best you've got?

I thought of your book, reading a CWT thread about Marianna, Florida. I'll just bet the governor put something through his head, accident or no.

This place was huge mess, after the War.

Proving yet again that just about every topic in CWT has been discussed previously: https://civilwartalk.com/threads/fl...-a-civil-war-remembrance.111503/#post-1085313

 

[bdtex]

Just be aware that some Panhandle history buffs, including Milton family members, insist that Gov. John Milton's death resulted from an accidental discharge while cleaning his gun.

So it was a shotgun,not a pistol?

 

[Drew]

Proving yet again that just about every topic in CWT has been discussed previously: https://civilwartalk.com/threads/fl...-a-civil-war-remembrance.111503/#post-1085313

Tell me about it? I'm exhausted with it but new folks ought to be engaged and educated. There's normally five sides to every story....keep them coming.

 

[bdtex]

Compare the first picture in post #34 to this picture to see an example of what Hurricane Michael did to Marianna. The tree to the right was uprooted and one of it's branches drove straight into the ground and is holding the tree up.

 

[Podad]

Compare the first picture in post #34 to this picture to see an example of what Hurricane Michael did to Marianna. The tree to the right was uprooted and one of it's branches drove straight into the ground and is holding the tree up.

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This x 1000000 happened in Michael's path
worst I have ever seen.

 

[bdtex]

Battle anniversary bump. Visited Marianna this year and last year. Thought I might make it there again next year but it's not looking likely. My Uncle and Aunt that lived in Sneads are getting divorced and my Uncle lives in Dothan, Alabama now. If I take my mother to visit him next year,maybe I can make a quick run to Montgomery or Marbury.

 

[donna]

Have they cleaned it up. You never hear about Panhandle much any more on the news. Just hope things are better for them. The Hurricane was horrible.

 

[bdtex]

Have they cleaned it up. You never hear about Panhandle much any more on the news. Just hope things are better for them. The Hurricane was horrible.

I have not been back to Marianna since earlier this year. Drove through the panhandle on IH10 in route to Fort Myers back in June and noted there was still hurricane cleanup ongoing in the places visible from IH10. The debris may be all cleaned up but I assume rebuilding/repairing of structural damage in Marianna is ongoing. I also assume there were/are a lot of uninsured property owners in the lower income areas of Marianna. Might not be much repairing/rebuilding going on in those areas yet.

 

[USS ALASKA]

Florida Historical Quarterly
Volume 29
Number 4
Issue 4
Article 3
1950

The Battle of Marianna
Mark F. Boyd

This Article is brought to you for free and open access by STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Florida Historical Quarterly by an authorized editor of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected].

Subsequent to the military operations about Pensacola in the first year of the Civil War, most of West Florida remained remote from the struggle. Its main contribution to the Confederacy was salt produced from numerous evaporating establishments along the coast, which were frequently demolished by raiding parties from vessels of the Federal blockading squadron. It was also an important source of agricultural produce. The scarcity of good agricultural lands and distance from markets had restricted plantation farming to limited areas of Jackson, Washington and Walton counties. Although sparsely inhabited, the widely separated communities contributed heavily to the man-power of the Southern armies. On the other hand, the very wildness of much of the region afforded harborage both to deserters from the Confederate army and evaders of conscription, who, from their lawless conduct, occasioned much disorder, in which they were encouraged by Federal authorities in Fort Barrancas on Pensacola Bay. From such contacts, the latter were led to believe that considerable Union sentiment prevailed throughout that area.

https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2402&context=fhq

Cheers,
USS ALASKA