Editing Fort Pickens (section)

=== Bombardments ===
After tensions in Pensacola grew, and the Confederates secured posts at Fort McRee and Fort Barrancas, the Federal forces decided to shell the confederate forts. On November 22, two Union warships, the [[USS Niagara (1855)|''Niagara'']] and the [[USS Richmond (1860)|''Richmond'']], sailed into the bay, and the bombardment began. The attack lasted two days, and the results were in the Union's favor. Fort McRee was nearly destroyed, and the town of [[Warrington, Florida|Warrington]] and the Navy Yard were destroyed.

A second bombardment, provoked by the drunken Confederate commander of Fort Barrancas who fired on Santa Rosa Island on New Year's Day 1862. This was the last exchange between US troops and [[Braxton Bragg]] army, before evacuating Pensacola in May, 1862.
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File:AdamJSlemmerinConfederateBatteryAtWarringtonAcrossFromFortPickens1861.jpg|Confederate Battery at Warrington opposite Fort Pickens
File:The photographic history of the Civil War - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities (1911) (14760322774).jpg|J.D. Edwards photograph of Confederates occupying batteries outside Fort Pickens
File:The photographic history of the Civil War - in ten volumes (1911) (14759494611).jpg|J.D. Edwards photograph of Confederates occupying batteries outside Fort Pickens
File:The photographic history of the Civil War - in ten volumes (1911) (14782666493).jpg|J.D. Edwards photograph of Confederates occupying batteries outside Fort Pickens
File:The photographic history of the Civil War - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities (1911) (14762809165).jpg|J.D. Edwards photograph of rebels near lighthouse at Pensacola
File:Confederate camp, Warrington Navy Yard, Pensacola, Florida, 1861.tif|Confederate camp, Warrington Navy Yard, Pensacola, Florida, 1861 Company B of the 9th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
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