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	Fort Pickens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fort Pickens is the name of a historic United States military fort on Santa Rosa Island in the Pensacola, Florida area.
		Fort Pickens is currently part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore, and as such, is administered by the United States Park Service.
		Fort Pickens and the Santa Rosa Areas of Gulf Islands National Seashore are currently closed to vehicular traffic while efforts are underway to rebuild and repair damage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Pickens (369 words)

	Fort Pickens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Fort Pickens was designed by the French military engineer Simon Bernard, who had been hired by the United States as a consultant.
		A Civil War era map shows the relationship of Fort Pickens with Fort McRee and Fort Barrancas, which were designed to act in concert to defend the harbor mouth.
		The landward side of Fort Pickens has a dry ditch, with a counterscarp wall and glacis, which protected the main fort wall from direct cannon fire, and provided another position for infantry to defend the fort from (the "covered way").
	andy_bennett.home.mindspring.com /picken.html (339 words)

	Fort Tours \| Fort Pickens
		Fort Pickens was the largest of a group of forts designed to fortify Pensacola Harbor.
		Fort Pickens Park is located on the far west end of Santa Rosa Island.
		Fort Pickens was one of the few forts in the south that were not captured by the Confederates.
	www.forttours.com /pages/fortpickens.asp (801 words)

	Fort Pickens -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Fort Pickens is currently part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore, and as such, is administered by the (Click link for more info and facts about United States Park Service) United States Park Service.
		During the (Civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865) American Civil War, Fort Pickens held the distinction of being the only Southern fort not to be captured by the (The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861) Confederacy.
		Fort Barrancas, located across Pensacola Bay from Fort Pickens, is on the grounds of Naval Air Station (NAS) (A town in extreme northwest Florida) Pensacola.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fo/fort_pickens.htm (368 words)

	Pensacolas Greatest Resource - Fort Pickens Area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Fort Pickens then, is protected and maintained by the National Park Service.
		The beaches of the Fort Pickens area is a contributing part to the many miles of beautiful beaches on Santa Rosa Island.
		Named after the Revolutionary War hero, Andrew Pickens, the fort was completed and officially ready for troops on October 4, 1834.
	www.pensacolasgreatest.com /FortPickens.html (899 words)

	Fort Pickens and the Outbreak of the Civil War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Fort Pickens and the Outbreak of the Civil War
		One of the largest brick forts built in the United States, Fort Pickens provided the setting for a serious effort by a small group of men to avert or at least postpone the outbreak of the Civil War.
		This lesson is based on Fort Pickens, one of the thousands of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/38pickens/38pickens.htm (175 words)

	Fort Tours \| Fort Barrancas
		The old fort was used as a signal station, small arms range, and a storage area in later years.
		The center of the fort held a shot furnace for heating cannonballs, marked by a brick foundation.
		From there, Fort Pickens is nine miles west, and the Santa Rosa area is 10 miles east.
	www.forttours.com /pages/fortbarrancas.asp (1006 words)

	Fort Pickens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Fort Pickens was built on Santa Rosa Island, guarding the east side of the entrance to Pensacola Bay.
		Fort McRee was heavily damaged during the Civil War, and finished off by a hurricane in the early 1900s.
		Fort Pickens was one of two forts in the South that stayed with the Union at the beginning of the secessions and the start of the Civil War.
	janandpat.net /otherexp/ftpickens.htm (255 words)

	Fort Pickens
		Fort Pickens is the largest of four forts built to defend Pensacola Bay and its navy yard.
		The fort was begun in 1829, completed in 1834, and used until 1947.
		Fort Pickens was one of four seacoast forts in the South that remained in Union control during the Civil War.
	www.krausehouse.ca /krause/FortPickens.htm (287 words)

	Gulf Islands National Seashore-Fort Pickens
		The brick walls of Fort Pickens were obsolete by 1865, yet they were not replaced until the 1890s.
		Five reinforced concrete fortifications were built in the Fort Pickens area between 1897 and 1899, and a minefield was prepared for the harbor entrance.
		Fort Pickens was closed in 1947, after 118 years of service.
	www.nps.gov /guis/extended/FLA/History/FtPck.htm (339 words)

	Mike McMillan's Fort McRee: A Virtual Tour
		Fort McRee was built on a narrow bar of sand (hence it's unique shape and unfortunate demise) across the channel from Fort Pickens, which remained in Union hands through out the war.
		Fort Barrancas on the mainland was the third side of the triangle that protected the mouth of Pensacola Bay in Florida and the important Navy Yard there.
		Damage during engagements with Fort Pickens, the purposeful destruction implemented during the eventual Confederate abandonment, the westward moving ocean currents, and the inevitable hurricanes finally did this impressive fort in.
	www.geocities.com /yello_armadillo/mcree.htm (334 words)

	Fort Pickens. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		fortification on the western end of Santa Rosa Island at the entrance to Pensacola Bay, NW Fla. When Florida joined the Confederacy in Jan., 1861, Fort Barrancas on the mainland was evacuated and its garrison sent to Fort Pickens.
		Refusing to surrender, the fort was reinforced and repulsed a Confederate attack in Oct., 1861; it remained in Union hands throughout the war.
		Fort Pickens is part of a Florida state park.
	www.bartleby.com /65/fo/FortPick.html (125 words)

	Fort Pickens--Reading 1
		The four brick forts which had been built with slave labor to protect the bay’s entrance from possible foreign attack would be part of the prize: Fort Pickens on the western end of Santa Rosa Island, Fort McRee to the west across the ship channel, and Fort Barrancas and its Advanced Redoubt on the mainland.
		On January 10, 1861, the same day Florida seceded from the Union, he concentrated all his troops in Fort Pickens, which he believed was the key to the defense of Pensacola’s harbor.
		If he withdrew the garrisons at those forts it would mean he officially recognized the Confederacy and its right to occupy those posts; if, on the other hand, he supplied the forts, he risked war.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/38pickens/38facts1.htm (1186 words)

	Fort Sumter Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		In January actions to defend fort Pickens were made; Lieutenant Slemmer who was in charge of the Union army in Florida moved his command to Fort Pickens, which was easier to reinforce.
		Fort Sumter held on for months before falling, but it was surrounded.
		Fort Sumter was a important area on the Charleston Harbor.
	www.assumption.edu /users/McClymer/his260/SumterNotes.html (646 words)

	Exploring Florida Fort Pickens Photograph Gallery
		View of Ft. Pickens through the gap in the wall that was once Bastion D. This bastion was destroyed on June 20, 1899, when a fire reached a magazine containing 8,000 pounds of powder.
		Counterscarp wall by Bastion E. The counterscarp wall was built to protect the landward face of the fort from artillery fire.
		View from Bastion E. The fort was named in honor of Revolutionary War hero, General Andrew Pickens.
	fcit.coedu.usf.edu /florida/photos/military/picken/picken.htm (543 words)

	Confederate Military History Chapter 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		On January 8th the latter removed a store of powder from the Spanish fort to Fort Barrancas, where a guard was placed with loaded muskets, one of which was fired on the same night toward a party of citizens who approached the fort.
		But on the night of the 12th Vogdes' troops were landed at Fort Pickens, and General Bragg, reasonably inferring that Worden had brought orders to that effect, ordered his arrest, and he was apprehended at Montgomery and held for several months as a prisoner.
		Their orders were to destroy all the camp tents, Fort McRee and Fort Barrancas as far as possible, the hospital, the houses in the navy yard, the steamer Fulton, the coal left in the yard, all the machinery for drawing out ships, the trays, shears—in fact everything which could be made useful to the enemy.....
	members.aol.com /pencwrt/history/cmh/ch02.html (5764 words)

	Pensacola Beach Florida History - Santa Rosa Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The Fort was completed in 1834 and used until WWII, when modern weapons made traditional coastal defense obsolete.
		Fort Pickens has changed over the years, so take the self-guided tour and peel back the layers of history.
		Fort Pickens now houses an auditorium, a museum, and a visitors center offering information about the area.
	www.visitpensacolabeach.com /history.htm (272 words)

	Seige of Fort Pickens, Fla. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		General: That Fort Pickens has been beleaguered by the rebels for the last nine months, and that it was daily threatened by the boasting rebels with the fate of Sumter, is a fact notorious to the whole world.
		By noon the guns of Fort Meltee were all silenced but one, and three hours before sunset this fort and the adjoining battery ceased to fire.
		I directed the guns of Batteries Lincoln, Cameron, and Totten principally on the batteries adjacent to the navy-yard, those of Battery Scott to Fort McRee and the light-house batteries, and those of the fort to all.
	plaza.ufl.edu /moverton/html/1stpickens.html (1481 words)

	Ft Pickens, Fort to visit near Pensacola, day trip
		The Fort Pickens area has approximately 10 miles of park land that includes beautiful beaches, nature trails, fishing, a campground, and of course, the fort.
		In addition, Fort Pickens briefly held Chief Geronimo and several of his warriors and their families (1885-87).
		The two short hiking trails at Fort Pickens are the Dunes Nature Trail, across the road from Campground Loop A, and the Blackbird Marsh Trail, behind Loop A. The Florida National Seashore Trail also starts at Fort Pickens and proceeds about 28 miles along the Gulf of Mexico to Navarre Beach.
	www.gulf-shores-alabama.net /ft-pickens.html (935 words)

	Military History Online
		Fort Barrancas, located on a barrier island, was one of four fortified areas that marked the southern defenses.
		Along with Fort Barrancas, which defended the Navy Yard, there were Fort Pickens and Fort McRee, both located on islands at the entrance to the bay.
		The fort was one of the strongest on the Gulf Coast.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /civilwar/misc/barrancas.aspx (2138 words)

	GORP - Gulf Islands National Seashore - Fort Pickens
		The 13th Coast Artillery Regiment was headquartered at Fort Barrancas Army Post, which included Fort Pickens and Fort McRee as sub-posts.
		Located in the center of Fort Pickens, the position of the battery illustrates the evolution of coastal defenses from brick and stone fortifications to the modern reinforced concrete installations.
		In 1861 Langdon commanded a battery of 10-inch seacoast mortars at Fort Pickens, in 1874 he served as an artillery captain at the fort, and in 1885 he returned as a lieutenant colonel in charge of the 2nd U.S. Artillery.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/resource/us_ns/fl/his3_gul.htm (1167 words)

	Fort Pickens — Complete Fort Pickens, Florida Visitors Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Fort Pickens, Florida is a historic fort located on the western end of Santa Rosa Island off the coast of the Florida Panhandle.
		The Fort Pickens area is known for such recreational activities as camping, hiking, fishing and swimming.
		As a result, the Fort Pickens Museum and the Fort Pickens Visitor Center remain closed indefinitely, while the area east of the Campground Registration/Ranger Station is accessible only by boat.
	www.southcoastusa.com /fort_pickens.asp (355 words)

	Dana's photo blog: Fort Pickens
		When Florida joined the Confederacy in January 1861, Fort Barrancas, on the mainland was evacuated and its garrison was sent to Fort Pickens.
		Refusing to surrender, the fort was reinforced and it repulsed a Confederate attack in October 1861; it remained in Union hands throughout the war.
		Currently Fort Pickens is part of a Florida state park.
	www.sewanee.edu /blog/stuphoto/archives/000131.html (95 words)

	Florida in the Civil War @ Florida OCHP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		However, a truce was worked out at Pensacola in which the North agreed not to reinforce the fort, and the South agreed not to attack it.
		However, the southern troops were forced to withdraw after Union reinforcements from Fort Pickens arrived on the scene.
		The turbulent water around the fort may have been rendered as representative of the crisis in 1861.
	dhr.dos.state.fl.us /museum/mfh/exhibits/civilwar/03.cfm (436 words)

	Fort Pickens--Putting It All Together
		The forts were built to protect the U.S. from the threat of foreign attack.
		Fort Pickens’ only active use was during the Civil War, a war that set its slave builders free.
		Fort McRee is now destroyed primarily due to the forces of nature, not man.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/38pickens/38putting.htm (569 words)

	Pensacolas Greatest Resource - Fort Pickens Camping (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The Fort Pickens Campground is within Gulf Islands National Seashore.
		The entrance gate to the Fort Pickens area is closed from 10pm until 7am.
		Walk-ins are accepted at the Fort Pickins Campground office on a space available basis.
	www.pensacolasgreatest.com /FtPickensCamp.html (489 words)

	Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		An act of war was just what Pickens had in mind too as he was working through a plan to take the fort by force.
		Pickens's advisors had told him any direct attack on the fort would result in too much bloodshed, and the only effective option that remained was to first bombard the fort with cannon fire to the point that no one could reinforce the fort and surrender was the only option for Anderson.
		In the end, the Fort Pickens expedition was deemed too far behind schedule and the mission to reinforce Fort Sumter was set in motion.
	w3.trib.com /~jbrooks/sumter3.htm (884 words)

	Florida In The Civil War, Chapter 2
		Slidell that it would doubtless provoke an attack upon the fort by the force of 1,700 men then assembled at the land defenses under Colonel Chase, and he urged that President Buchanan be informed that Fort Pickens would not be molested if reinforcements were not sent.
		Soon after Fort Pickens opened two large naval steamers, supposed to be the Niagara and Hartford, took position due west from Fort McRee and within good range, from whence they poured in broadsides of the heaviest metal throughout the day.
		Their orders were to destroy all the camp tents, Fort McRee and Fort Barrancas as far as possible, the hospital, the houses in the navy yard, the steamer Fulton, the coal left in the yard, all the machinery for drawing out ships, the trays, shears--in fact everything which could be made useful to the enemy....
	www.civilwarhome.com /Florida2.htm (5555 words)

	Gulf Islands National Seashore: Fort Pickens Road \| Film North Florida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Fort Pickens was built in 1829 on the western end of Santa Rosa Island by the US Ary Corps of Engineers.
		It was named for Brigadier General Andrew Pickens of the South Carolina State Troops in the American Revolution.
		The fort was built at a strategic point at the tip of the island on the channel, protecting Pensacola Bay.
	www.filmnorthflorida.com /locations/Gulf-Islands-National-Seashore:-Fort-Pickens-Road (144 words)

	Fort Pickens Chapter FSSDAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Plans to build Fort Pickens on the tip of Santa Rosa Island were begun soon after Florida became a U.S. Territory in 1821.
		The fort was built of native brick and earth.
		Fort Pickens was a working military fort until just after World War II.
	www.geocities.com /rseymour43 (208 words)

	(GCCBB5) Military History Series - Fort Pickens by Breaktrack
		Fort Pickens traded shots with Fort Barrancas across the bay but due to the limitations of the cannons of the time, very little damage was caused by either side.
		This fort is also unusual in that it was modified over the years, most notably the construction of Battery Pensacola in 1898 covering almost half the parade ground of the original fort.
		Be aware there is an $8.00 charge per vehicle to enter the park area containing Fort Pickens and all of the Batterys and the Fort close as sundown.
	www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCCBB5&log=y (515 words)

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