Treasures of Madison County Museum and Genealogical Library

Located in the restored 1890s W.T. Davis Building, these organizations promote the cultural heritage of Madison County through artifact, photographic, and genealogical collections. In their collections are copies of historic photographs, Civil War letters, and a journal from Madison County ...

Natural Bridge Battlefield Historic State Park

Natural Bridge is the site of the second largest Civil War battle in Florida, and where the St. Marks River drops into a sinkhole and flows underground for one-quarter of a mile before reemerging.

In March 1865, a Union force ...

State Archives-Library of Florida/R.A. Gray Building

The Florida Collection in the State Library contains one of the most comprehensive holdings of Floridiana in the state. Books, manuscripts, maps, memorabilia, newspaper articles, and periodicals are among the 60,000 items in the collection.

The State Archives of Florida ...

Jacksonville, Pensacola & Mobile Railroad Company Freight Depot

Constructed in c.1858, a second story was added to the building by 1885. This depot was one of the stations on the Pensacola and Georgia Railroad and a center for trade and transportation in Leon County, including the transport of ...

Florida State University Libraries-Strozier Library

The University Libraries' Special Collections Department contains

a variety of manuscript material relating to Florida in the Civil War.

The collections include period letters, diaries, memoirs, family papers, official documents and correspondence, Confederate paper money, and other miscellaneous related items.

Brokaw-McDougall House

Constructed in c.1856, this house was the residence of Peres B. Brokaw, a Tallahassee businessman and political leader who served as the captain of a local militia unit, the Leon Cavalry. A supporter of secession, Brokaw led his troops in ...

Bellevue (Murat House)

Now located at the Tallahassee Museum, the c.1840 Bellevue plantation house was moved in 1967 from its original location on Jackson Bluff Road in Tallahassee. From 1854 until 1867, Bellevue was the home of Catherine Murat, great grandniece of George ...

Lake City-Columbia County Historical Museum

This museum is housed in the restored c.1870 May Vinzant Perkins House. The house was the postwar residence of John Vinzant who served as a sergeant in the 1st Florida Cavalry which fought in the western theater. At the Third ...

Dickison and His Men-Jefferson Davis's Baggage

John Jackson Dickison (1816-1902), Florida's famous Civil War guerrilla leader, bivouacked at Camp Baker, south of here, during the closing weeks of the conflict. Dickison and his men became legendary figures. As Company H, Second Florida Cavalry, they

engaged in skirmishes, ...

P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History-University of Florida

The P.K. Yonge Library, in the George A. Smathers Libraries' Department of Special and Area Studies, is the state's preeminent Floridiana collection. It includes a diverse array of primary sources, and is the most comprehensive repository for early Florida newspapers. ...