Question

Medals

Answer 1

Explain what happened during the battle of Ft. Pickens, including the end result and impact of each on both the North (Union) and the South (Confederacy).

Answer 2

By the time of the American Civil War, Fort Pickens had not been occupied since the Mexican-American War. Despite its dilapidated condition, Lieutenant Adam J. Slemmer, in charge of United States forces at Fort Barrancas, determined that Pickens was the most defensible of the posts in the area. His decision to abandon Barrancas was hastened when, around midnight of January 8, 1861, his guards repelled a group of local men intending to take the fort. Some historians suggest that these were the first shots fired by United States forces in the Civil War.

Shortly after this incident, on January 10, 1861, the day Florida declared its secession from the Union, Slemmer destroyed over 20,000 pounds of gunpowder at Fort McRee, spiked the guns at Barrancas, and evacuated with 51 soldiers and 30 sailors to Fort Pickens. On January 15, 1861 and January 18, 1861, Slemmer refused demands for surrender from Florida militia Colonel William Henry Chase, who had designed and constructed the fort while a captain in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Slemmer held the fort against Confederate threat of attack until reinforced and relieved in April 1861 by Colonel Harvey Brown. Despite repeated Confederate military threats, Fort Pickens was one of the few Southern forts to remain in Union hands throughout the Civil War.[2]

The fort was reinforced by troops and material sent by Montgomery C. Meigs, an Army engineer tasked by President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of War Seward to draw up a plan to reinforce Fort Pickens. Meigs also managed construction of the Washington Aqueduct and the dome on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Pickens

Answer 3

Sorry i cant find anything credible for you :(

Answer 4

Thats okay. Took me all day just to find that. :'[ Oh well. I'll give you a medal just for being here. Lol.

Answer 5

Oh lol thanks