Resisting Land-based Assaults

The Advanced Redoubt had a unique mission among four 1800s forts at Pensacola: resisting land-based attacks on the Navy Yard. It saw little action, but during the Civil War it quickly repulsed a raid from the west by Brig. Gen. James H. Clanton's Confederate brigade against the 14th Corps d'Afrique and the 7th Vermont Infantry. The other three forts were designed to defend Pensacola from invasions from the gulf. Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island and Fort McRee on Perdido Key guarded the channel, while Fort Barrancas, facing the harbor entrance, could support their crossfire and fire cannonballs at ships entering the bay and harbor. Advanced Redoubt and Forts Barrancas, Pickens, and McRee were part of the Third System of coastal fortifications built between 1816 and 1870.

Warrington, Florida · United States