1863-1864 – An archive of documents and letters regarding Florida’s importance during the Civil War as the food “Supplier of the Confederacy” and the activation of the famous 1st Florida Special “Cow Cavalry” Battalion by a Tampa cattle broker
Various: 1863-1864. Various. This group of eight documents and letters is associated with Major Pleasant W. White, the Confederacy’s Chief Commissary for Florida, and Captain James McKay, of the Fifth Confederate Commissary District. A good case could be made that they were the two most important officers in the Confederacy..... More