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On Oct. 17, 1863, the only land engagement at Tampa between Confederate and Union forces took place when a Federal detachment of 124 men from the U.S. gunboat Tahoma and steamer Adela, after firing two blockade-runners moored upriver, fell back under Confederate assault without entering the city. Losses were Confederate: 6 killed, ? wounded, and 7 prisoners; Union: 3 killed, 10 wounded, and 5 prisoners.
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Tampa, Florida · United States
