Battles of American Civil War

For most veterans of the civil war, the surrender of Joseph Eggleston Johnston at Durham on April 29, 1865 was the end of the war. When John Logan held the first, informal memorial day service in Woodlawn cemetary in Carbondale, Illinois, it was on April 29, 1866--veterans considered that the first anniversary of end of the war.

You need to provide more specific information to get adequate responses to your other questions. There was a large prisoner of war camp in Columbus, Ohio--Camp Chase, named for Salmon Chase, former governor and Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury--there was no "Fort Columbus." I've many times driven past the large Confederate cemetary on Sullivant Avenue in Columbus. John Hunt Morgan conducted a raid into Indiana and Ohio in 1863. He was finally run to earth and put in the Ohio pennitentiary in Columbus (It was still standing when i moved to Ohio, but was torn down a few years ago for new, exciting development ! ! ! -- the location currently remains a vacant lot). Morgan escaped from the pennitentiary, which might be why Columbus is marked on your map.

One of the first significant actions in the Civil War was the occupation of the harbor defenses at Pensacola, Florida by a quick-thinking and quick-acting young lieutenant. Later, there was an abortive attempt to invade the interior of the state. Approximately 15,000 Floridians were members of voluteer regiments or militia units, but they stayed in Florida, and contributed little to the war. There was one brigade of Florida regiments in the Army of Northern Virginia--otherwise, as was the case all over the South, those men and resources sat idle, to defend ground the Federal armies had no interest in taking.

If you could provide more detail of what is on the map, perhaps names and dates, it would help a great deal in answering your questions.

Here is a link to a thread which i did on the opening of the Civil War, in which you can find a description of the operations at Pensacola. When you click on that link, look about half-way down the page for the word "Pensacola" in bold-face.