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• Camp Milton
• Merritt's Bridge
• Theophilus West House

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• Company E, 2nd Florida Battalion
  This unit became Company A, 10th Florida Infantry in June 1864.
• Richard L. Smith's Company, (Misc. Florida Cavalry Units)  ("Marianna Dragoons")
  This unit became Company B, 15th Confederate Cavalry on September 24, 1862.

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A History of Jackson County
Andrew Jackson was appointed Florida's first governor in 1821. At that time, Florida was divided into two sections or counties; east and west. The east was St. John's County and the west was Escambia County. Governor Jackson passed a bill in 1822 to add another county which was named after him. Jackson County became Florida's Third county and was set in the middle of the other two. Later the western boundary between Jackson and Escambia was expanded ever farther west. There were no towns in Jackson County when it was formed. The first county court met at what they called "Robinson's Big...

The Battle of Marianna, Florida
Learn more about the Battle of Marianna Forgotten by all but the most prolific of Civil War histories, the Battle of Marianna was a small but significant engagement fought in the streets of the Northwest Florida city of Marianna on September 27, 1864. Significance far beyond its size The Battle of Marianna impacted the development of not just Jackson County and Northwest Florida, but the state - and indeed - to some degree the nation as a whole for decades after the Civil War.

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