Reoccupied Without A Shot

Union troops re-took the city of St Augustine, Florida and Fort Marion from the Confederates on March 11^th 1862.

Fort Marion located at St Augustine, Florida was a small Union Army garrison with one Sergeant on January 7^th 1861, when it was taken over by about 25 Florida State Militia from Fernandina, Florida.  The Sergeant received a receipt for the fort from the Confederacy and it was surrendered without a shot.  Three days later the state of Florida seceded from the Union.  On March 11^th 1862 Union Marines landed from the USS Wabash and USS Mohican without opposition and were able to reoccupied St Augustine and Fort Marion.  The Fort was used as a military prison for the rest of the Civil War.