Currier & Ives Fort Pickens
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02881.17 Author/Creator: Currier & Ives Place Written: New York, New York Type: Print Date: circa 1862 Pagination: 1 lithograph : col. ; 30.5 x 40.5 cm. Order a Copy
Hand colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives at 152 Nassau Street, New York. Print is mounted. Full title: "Fort Pickens. Pensacola Harbor, Florida." Depiction of Fort Pickens in Pensacola Harbor, the only Southern fort to remain in Union hands for the duration of the war. A large American flag flutters above the fort. Between Fort Pickens and Fort McRae (which is how it is spelled on the lithograph, the actual spelling is McRee) in the background is a sailing ship. In November 1861, Fort McRee was bombarded heavily by Union forces at Fort Pickens, and by two ships, Niagara and Richmond. When Confederate forces abandoned Pensacola in May of 1862, they burned Fort McRee and several other buildings in the area believed to be of strategic value.
Fort Pickens is a pentagonal historic United States military fort on Santa Rosa Island in the Pensacola, Florida area. It is named after American Revolutionary War hero Andrew Pickens. The fort was completed in 1834. Much of the construction was done by slave labour. During the Civil War, Fort Pickens held the distinction of being the only Southern fort not to be captured by the Confederacy.
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