The Secession Convention convened in the state capitol at Tallahassee on January 3, 1861, and on January 10 voted 62-7 to withdraw from the Union, making Florida the third state to secede. Florida was the least populated of all the Confederate states. In 1860 its population was about 140,000 of which 63,000 were slaves. About 15,000 men from the state enlisted in the Confederate army, the vast majority were deployed outside Florida. The state’s primary importance to the Confederacy was as a source of beef and other agricultural supplies, its production of salt from seawater, and for blockade-runners who used its vast shoreline to evade the Union Navy.

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The Civil War in Florida- 1861

The Civil War in Florida- 1862

The Civil War in Florida- 1863

The Civil War in Florida- 1864

The Civil War in Florida- 1865