February 13, 1865---The Battle of Station Four

FEBRUARY 13, 1865:        

The Battle of Station Four (The Battle of Cedar Creek; The Battle of Levy County, Florida): 

A Union force of about 200 men attempts to cut the east-west rail line across the northern portion of Florida. Station Four is little more than a bare spot along the rail line, and the battle soon spreads across the countryside into the town of Levyville (David Yulee Levy, for whom the County and town were both named, had much to do with Florida achieving Statehood in 1845; during the Civil War he supported secession, but took very little part in the conflict. He owned the rail line under attack, and refused to allow the Confederacy to melt the rails down for weapons steel).  The messy, spread out, but not particularly gory battle ends with both sides claiming victory. Levy’s rail line remains intact, though its eastern terminus at Fernandina Beach is in Union hands.