Florida Monument-Gettysburg

At the Battle of Gettysburg, the Florida Brigade (comprised of the 2nd, 5th, and 8th Florida Infantry Regiments), under the command of Colonel David Lang, participated in the heaviest fighting of July 2 and 3, 1863, including an advance in ...

Florida Monument- Vicksburg

Erected by the Florida Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1954, the Florida Monument is located on former national park property, which was later deeded back to the City of Vicksburg.

This granite monolith monument commemorates the ...

Woodlawn Cemetery - West Palm Beach

In a roundabout at its center, this cemetery contains a Confederate monument erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1941.

Also buried in this cemetery are approximately 30 Union veterans, including Willmon Whilldin of the 6th New Jersey ...

Key West Oldest House

Constructed circa 1829 and moved to its current location circa 1836, this house was the residence of Francis Watlington, who served as a lieutenant in the Confederate Navy Squadron at Mobile, Alabama, including service on the gunboat CSS Gaines and ...

Cape Florida Lighthouse

To protect shipping in the hazardous Straits of Florida, Congress authorized the construction of the Cape Florida Lighthouse in 1822. The first lighting occurred on December 17, 1825. In July 1836, an Indian attack in the early months of the ...

Manatee County Historical Records Library

Located in the restored 1918 Carnegie Library building, the library contains governmental records dating back to 1855.

County historical records, some of the Civil War era, are available to researchers, including deed books, marriage licenses, probate files, court records, County Commission ...

Manatee Burying Ground Cemetery

This cemetery contains the remains of at least ten Confederate veterans and officials including three delegates to the Florida Secession Convention - Ezekiel Glazier, James G. Cooper, and Dr. John C. Pelot, as well as at least three Union veterans ...

Bradenton

In August 1864, Union naval forces raided the Village of Manatee (now known as Bradenton) and destroyed a large saw and grist mill owned by John Curry and others. Later that same month, Union soldiers of the 2nd U.S. Colored ...

Monument to Colored Troops

Installed in 2000, the Civil War’s 2nd Regiment Infantry, U. S. Colored Troops monument is dedicated to the black Union soldiers who defended the Federal post at Fort Myers against the Confederate attack in February 1865.

A single black soldier standing ...

Miranda Home State Historical Marker

Civil War Heritage Trail

A State Historical Marker for the Miranda Home is

located in the vicinity of the home of Abel Miranda

who, with his brothers-in-law John and William Bethell,

ran a successful fishing operation in Big Bayou. Miranda

and the Bethells were ...