Civil War -Wartime Inventory Of Ordnance Stores At Fort Marion Florida -SOLD

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Civil War -Wartime Inventory Of Ordnance Stores At Fort Marion Florida.  This 3 page inventory lists numerous cannon, both coastal, siege, and field pieces, along with other small arms and ammunition, artillery & cavalry equipment of all types, and miscellaneous tools, etc.

The document is not dated but everything recorded on the inventory is Civil War issue or earlier.  The latest dated item is an 8″ Columbiad Model 1861.  I have used photographs to record the items list herein.

Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida, was an ancient fortress once named Castillo de San Marcos, until the U.S. Army took the fort over in the pre Civil War days. At the beginning of the war, Florida militia marched on the fort and demanded surrender by the undermanned fort, then commanded by Ordnance Sergeant Henry Douglas, who despite overwhelming odds, refused to surrender the fort unless he was given a receipt for the fort’s inventory.

In confederate hands for a brief time, the fort was once again surrendered to Federal forces, and later used as a base of rest and supply, since the war had left that area.

My opinion on the date of this document is most likely just after the retaking of federal forces.  Not knowing if confederate forces would attempt to retake the fort, the tswo 1861 8″ Columbiads, have been added to the defenses. From 1862 to 1865, much ordnance materiel accumulated there, thus the great assortment of items listed on the inventory.  There is no name associated with the document.  It came in a period envelope marked, “Inventory of Ord Stores at Fort Marion.”

Condition is fine, all manuscript on 4 page legal size paper.