USS Richmond was a wooden steam sloop in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.
USS Richmond at Baton Rouge, 1863
Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip; Richmond is in the right foreground.
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. It is the largest of four forts built to defend Pensacola Bay and its navy yard. The fort was completed in 1834 and was one of the few forts in the South that remained in Union hands throughout the American Civil War. It remained in use until 1947. Fort Pickens is included within the Gulf Islands National Seashore, and as such, is administered by the National Park Service.
Panorama of Fort Pickens
Engraving of wartime Fort Pickens
Adam Jacoby Slemmer
William Conway Union Navy quartermaster who refused to haul down the American flag when Pensacola Naval Yard was captured. From a sketch by William Waud