HISTORY & HERITAGE
Battle of Marianna Historic Site
Jackson County · Panhandle & Emerald Coast
The ground where a Union cavalry raid met the town's home guard on September 27, 1864.
ABOUT THIS PLACE
Brigadier General Alexander Asboth brought about seven hundred mounted men down from Pensacola: the 2nd Maine Cavalry, the 1st Florida Cavalry of the Union army, and detachments of the 82nd and 86th United States Colored Infantry. Marianna was a Confederate supply depot and recruiting center, and what stood against them was three to four hundred militia, home guard and reserves under Colonel Alexander Montgomery, made up of Chisolm's Alabama Militia cavalry, Company C of the 1st Florida Infantry Reserves, Norwood's Home Guard and the Greenwood Club Cavalry. The fighting centered on St. Luke's Episcopal Church. When the defenders would not surrender, Union troops set the church alight and shot men as they came out of the smoke. The Union lost eight killed, nineteen wounded and ten captured; the Confederates ten killed, sixteen wounded and forty-one missing or taken. The raid carried off about ninety-six prisoners and freed more than six hundred enslaved people
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