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Listen: The World ProgramInterpretive sign at Suwannee River State Park - Madison County, Florida
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Series 236, Box 3, FF121
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The sign reads: ?Confederate Earthworks. Erected, equipped and manned to defend the railroad bridge and head of navigation on the Suwannee River at the town of Columbus. This was the federal objective as they marched westward from Jacksonville in the federal campaign of 1864. They were defeated and turned back at the Battle of Olustee, fifty miles east of this point.?
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