Tallahassee- Other Civil War Sites

The Grove Museum- From his arrival in Tallahassee until the time of his death, Richard Keith Call purchased and exploited slave labor to run his brickyard, railroad, and land development businesses. He served two terms as Florida’s territorial governor (1836-39 and 1841-44). Call was a vocal opponent of secession during the 1850s and early 1860s. On January 10, 1861, delegates from Florida’s secession convention walked from the State Capitol to his home, the Grove, to taunt Call after they voted to secede. Call reportedly confronted them and said that they had “opened the gates of hell.” He died at the Grove on September 14, 1862.

**The Grove** **Museum- 902 North Monroe Street**

**Brokaw-McDougall House**– 329 North Meridian Street. **The house was built for Peres Bonney Brokaw, who served in the Confederate Cavalry during the Civil War**

**30.4417778, -84.2792778**– **Immediately after the Civil War ended, Union Brigadier General Edward M. McCook used the house as his temporary headquarters when he occupied Tallahassee.**

**The Knott House**– **Florida’s Emancipation Proclamation was read on the front steps on May 20, 1865.**

**The Meginnis-Munroe House- 125 North Gadsden Street** **built in 1854 served as a military hospital during the Civil War**

**30.4380556, -84.2799444- In 1868 as the National Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company, serving emancipated slaves and refugees opened here.**

**Tallahassee** was the only southern capital never captured by Federal forces in the **Civil** **War**.

The Old City Cemetery- 30.4427211, -84.2856399

Lang enlisted as a private at the start of the Civil War in the Confederate Army. He commanded the Florida Brigade (2nd, 5th, and 8th regiments) at the battle of Gettysburg, including Pickett’s Charge, where the brigade suffered 43% casualties.

**Monument to Confederate Unknown Dead**

**Union unknown graves- twenty-one Union troops, mostly unidentified, are buried in the southwest quadrant** **of the cemetery**

**Edward Hays, a Union soldier, was a member of Company E, 2nd Regiment, US Infantry.**

The railroad depot was built in 1858. It is one of the oldest railroad buildings in Florida and the oldest still used as a passenger rail station. Prior to the war Tallahassee was the region’s commercial hub, shipping 16,686 bales of ginned cotton in 1860.