Battlefield
Site of Only Land Engagement
at Tampa between Confederate &
Union Forces, Oct. 17, 1863
A Federal detachment of 124 men from U. S. gunboat Tahoma & Steamer Adela after firing 2 blockade-runners moored upriver fell back under Confederate assault without entering the city.
-Losses-
Confederate: 6 Killed ~ ? Wounded ~ 7 Prisoners
Union: 3 Killed ~ 10 Wounded ~ 5 Prisoners
Marker is on Bayshore Boulevard north of West Gandy Boulevard, on the left when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
