I'm still not sure if it is St. Andrew or St. Andrews. I've seen it both ways.
From the marker.
The Confederates were commanded by Captain Walter J. Robinson and Union forces from the USS Roebuck by Acting Master James Folger who were looking for a blockade-runner near the Old Town spring.
After the battle, the Union force was granted safe passage to retrieve their dead and wounded. Four were buried on Hurricane Island at the mouth of the bay and the Confederates buried another.
The Confederate unit later became Company A of the 11th Florida Infantry.
After the war, the Union dead were reinterred at the Fort Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola.
From HMDB Hurricane was one of four islands at the mouth of St. Andrews Bay, including Sand, Hammock and Crooked islands. An 1868 hurricane altered them, forming just one now called Shell Island. Now, this is a popular destination for shelling.
Bet You Didn't Know This Much About This Before. I Sure Didn't. --Old B-R'er
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