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. A core collection consists of the J. Patton Anderson Papers, which document the career of Confederate Major General James Patton Anderson, his military command in the West, Georgia, and Florida, and the fate of his family before, during, and after the war. Holdings also include his family papers and Civil War letters related to Florida and Floridians.

The Library also contains numerous other letters, correspondence, diaries, papers and miscellaneous documents relating to the Civil War in Florida, including the letters of Confederate Secretary of the Navy Stephen R. Mallory, the David Levy Yulee Papers, and collections of letters from soldiers both Confederate and Union. The Library's Florida Historical Map Collection contains over 30 maps of Civil War Florida.

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Information Provided by the Florida Department of State.