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Where fresh water shaped life
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Building a life on the frontier
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Browse FLH ArticlesA Night Attack Brings War to Santa Rosa Island
1861 — Confederate troops attacked a Union camp near Fort Pickens, but the battle did not dislodge the federal garrison.