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Marianna, Florida
1880

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1: Chattahoochee Landing & Model of Chattahoochee
2: 7 inch Brooke Gun & 32 pounders from CSS Chattahoochee
3: Union Cavalry at Olustee and Stan Peacock & Nadine Standland
4: Catesby Jones' Uniform Coat & Private Charles Zeigler
5: Confederate Marines landing on Chattahoochee River & Re-enactors
6: Firing a real Brooke 7 inch rifled cannon at Riverblast 2008
7: Moss Hill Methodist Church
8: Arts & Pork Recruitment Day & CSS Tallahassee Guard firing cannon
9: Private Levy Stephens & Where the Yankees Were Stopped
10: Artillery Sergeant James Harrell & "Baby"

SCV Camp 703
CSS Tallahassee Marine Guard, Company A

Gee Cemetery Dedication
Gadsden County, Florida
March 28, 2009

Sons of Confederate Veterans National - Army of Tennessee
Florida Division

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On the bluff at Fort Gaines, Georgia, a well-preserved Confederate artillery emplacement overlooks the Chattahoochee River. The site is unique because of the original cannon is still in place there more than 143 years after the end of the War Between the States. It is the only such piece still on its original site along the Apalachicola and Chattahoochee Rivers.
The Confederate defenses at Fort Gaines were part of a series of such installations built between 1862 and 1865 to protect the Apalachicola and Chattahoochee Rivers from Union attack. Fortified points included the "Narrows" on the lower river, Ricco's Bluff, Alum Bluff and Rock Bluff (all in Florida), as well as Fort Gaines and Columbus (in Georgia).
The third of three forts built in the city, the Fort Gaines batteries consisted of two artillery emplacements high on the bluff and a third on the riverbank below. One of the upper emplacements is very well preserved and a second can still be seen as a dip in the surface of the ground.
None of the batteries were ever attacked by Federal forces. Ricco's Bluff was raided by the Union Navy in 1865, but the artillery had already been removed by that point and only a detachment of Confederate cavalry was stationed at the site. By DALE COX

For more information on the Battle of Marianna and the Civil War in Florida, visit these sites:

Private William Thomas Covington
Company G, 59th Georgia Infantry
2nd Great-grandfather of 2nd Lieutenant Commander Lionel Young. >> MORE >>