{"id":11028,"date":"2021-01-15T01:30:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T06:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=878"},"modified":"2020-12-08T23:52:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T04:52:50","slug":"operations-in-florida-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/operations-in-florida-9\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8230;we cannot stand a siege against any organized army, and therefore should be re-enforced immediately.&#8221;\u2014Operations in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">FORT TAYLOR, KEY WEST, FLA.,<br \/>\n<em>January <\/em>15, 1861.<\/p>\n<p>SIR: In consequence of the secession of this State and the seizure of the forts and arsenals in other Southern States. I have moved my command to Fort Taylor, and shall defend it to the last moment against any force attempting to capture it. I have four months&#8217; provisions and 70,000 gallons water, but we cannot stand a siege against any organized army, and therefore should be re-enforced immediately. Two vessels of war should be stationed here to protect the entrance to the harbor and prevent a landing beyond the range of my guns. Mail facilities having ceased through Florida, all orders for this post should be sent via Havana from New York through the American consul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">J. M. BRANNAN, <span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;..<\/span><br \/>\n<em>Captain, First Artillery, Commanding.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maj. GEORGE DEAS,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/span><em>Assistant Adjutant-General, Dept. of the East, Troy, N. Y.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT TAYLOR, KEY WEST, FLA., January 15, 1861. SIR: In consequence of the secession of this State and the seizure of the forts and arsenals in other Southern States. I have moved my command to Fort Taylor, and shall defend it to the last moment against any force attempting to capture it. I have four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":98620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[41],"class_list":{"0":"post-11028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-war-of-the-rebellion-a-compilation-of-the-official-records-of-the-union-and-confederate-armies","8":"tag-operations-in-florida"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/War-of-the-Rebellion-Official-Records-e1617334712502.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}