Confederates wreck the Pensacola Navy Yard and withdraw
1862, Warrington Navy Yard, Pensacola, Florida.
- Date
- 1862
- Where
- Warrington Navy Yard, Pensacola, Florida
- What happened
- Burned
- Event
- 19 of 174
The Warrington Navy Yard had surrendered to secessionists on January 12, 1861. After New Orleans fell in 1862, Confederate troops retreated from the yard, reduced most of its facilities to rubble and abandoned Fort Barrancas and Fort McRee. The site is now Naval Air Station Pensacola.
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