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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1INN_deadly-explosion_Pensacola-Beach-FL.html
On the night of June 20, 1899, a fire broke out near a gunpowder magazine on the fort's northwest side. A bucket brigade fought the flames, but the blaze grew in intensity, forced the soldiers away from the cistern, and at 5:20 a.m. ignited 8,000 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1INM_dueling-with-confederates_Pensacola-Beach-FL.html
If you had been here on November 22 and 23, 1861, you would have been in the midst of a fierce Civil War battle. Union troops at Fort Pickens bombarded Confederates who, in January, had occupied Fort McRee straight ahead across the bay and Fort Ba…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1INK_battery-payne_Pensacola-Beach-FL.html
In 1922 Hugo W. Papp looked on as the gun crew practiced firing one of Battery Payne's rapid-fire rifles. The recoil tore the gun from its mount and hurled it down the steps at Papp. In an instant he was dead. This was the only time that a life wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1INJ_battery-cullum-battery-sevier_Pensacola-Beach-FL.html
Gun crews performed a carefully choreographed ballet every time they loaded and fired an artillery piece. One slip-up in the teamwork could cause serious injuries or death. Crews practiced aiming at a target, opening the breech, loading and rammin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1INC_chasefield-plantation-cemetery_Pensacola-Beach-FL.html
These gravestones are from the Chasefield Plantation Cemetery, originally located on land that is now part of Pensacola Naval Air Station. They were moved to this location in 1957.
Chasefield Plantation was the home of William H. Chase, who sup…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1INB_battery-worth_Pensacola-Beach-FL.html
Battery Worth's guns were deafening. The gun crews were told to "stay loose and keep your mouths open." Cotton was available, but most soldiers did not use it and developed "artilleryman's ear." Gun pits on the left and right housed eight 12-inch …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1INA_battery-langdon_Pensacola-Beach-FL.html
Hidden beneath this vegetation is Battery Langdon, Fort Pickens' most powerful gun emplacement. It's 12-inch guns could throw a projectile 17 miles out to sea. The first time Artilleryman M. Harry fired one of them his hat blew off, his pants spli…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IN6_battery-234_Pensacola-Beach-FL.html
Hidden beneath this vegetated mound of Battery 234 were soldiers who figured out solutions to a pressing problem: Where should artillery crews aim the guns to strike an attacking ship? It took some teamwork. Soldiers in the nearby end towers would…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IN5_battery-trueman_Pensacola-Beach-FL.html
Fort Pickens' brick walls and cast-iron guns had become obsolete by the end of the Civil War. Harbor defenses now called for steel guns in low-lying concrete batteries. Trueman's 3-inch, rapid-fire guns, mounted in 1905, guarded the inner channel …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IN4_battery-cooper_Pensacola-Beach-FL.html
Battery Cooper's rifles popped up, disappeared, and reappeared like a jack-in-the-box. The battery, built in 1906, had two 6-inch rifles mounted on disappearing carriages. When the guns were fired, the recoil automatically lowered them behind the …