Thank you Zack. I have been looking for something on the arsenals and also Bennings Brigade in hopes of having a clearer picture of both mine and hubby's ancestors activity. After the first of the year, I'm going to get real busy adding to my library and yours on Floridians is high on the list.
Both Angela and Stephen R. Mallory are buried at our oldest cemetery. St Michaels is also the resting place for Dorothy Walton, wife of one of the signers of the Dec of Indy. There is a website for it and Mallory's grave is shown. The Confederate Naval Jack flies over it.

The names of many original residents show up all over the place and there are a whole lot of decendants. My Spanish line is the Caro line (and it's one of hubbys too) who came with Don Francisco Moreno (Angela's father). My 3x GGrandfather Joseph E. Caro was the "Keeper of the Spanish Archives". Sort of a fancy way of saying he transcribed all of the original land grants for this part of West Florida and Mobile from Spanish to English. In doing this, those who had the grants were able to submit them to the US Government with a request that they be honored by the US. They were granted their request on the grants.

The Pensacola Historical Society puts out a booklet every once in a while (Pensacola History Illustrated) and there is one edition that has the most information on the burning of the mills at Bagdad and the entire area as the US Govt. moved in as Bragg moved out of Ft Barrancas. This is information I knew nothing about. Even in the 'stone age' we weren't taught every little bit of History but we learned more than the kids are today.

Pam