List of Illustrations
Introduction: From Territory to Twenty-Seventh State
Seth A. Weitz
1. Extreme Measures: Florida and the Crisis of 1850
Seth A. Weitz
2. “The Rights, Causes, and Necessity for Secession”: The Interplay of Race, Class, and Politics in Antebellum Florida
Lauren K. Thompson
3. “So Exposed as Recently to Encounter Serious Disasters”: The Defense and Capture of Amelia Island, 1861–1862
Jonathan C. Sheppard
4. “Our Necessary Resort”: Confederate Guerrillas in East and Middle Florida, 1861–1865
Zack C. Waters
5. Embattled Executive: Governor John Milton’s Civil War
R. Boyd Murphree
6. “The Church Did Not Die”: Religion in Florida during the Civil War
David B. Parker
7. Civil War and Florida’s New Legal Paradigm
Chris Day
8. Grander in Her Daughters: Florida’s Women during the Civil War
Tracy J. Revels
9. Florida Hispanics in the Civil War
Robert A. Taylor
10. Battles of Olustee: Civil War Memory in Florida
David Nelson
Bibliography
Contributors
Index