Editing Quincy, Florida (section)

===American Civil War===
One of the most important anti-secession organizations in Florida leading up to the Civil War was the Constitutional Union Party. The party, while acknowledging the "wrongs" inflicted upon the south by the north, advocated for "pacific, rational, and judicial methods for righting these wrongs." The party held its state convention in Quincy on June 27, 1860.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Reiger |first1=John F. |title=Secession of Florida from the Union - a Minority Decision? |journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly |date=April 1968 |volume=46 |issue=4 |page=358 |url=http://palmm.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A22412 |access-date=10 July 2023}}</ref> 
  
[[William Tennent Stockton]], once mayor of Quincy, raised a cavalry company following secession called the Gadsden Dragoons. He was subsequently appointed as captain of the [[1st Florida Cavalry Regiment]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Coddington |first1=Ronald S. |title=Western Theater |journal=Military Images |date=January–February 1993 |volume=14 |issue=4 |pages=23–30 |jstor=44032491 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44032491 |access-date=16 February 2023}}</ref>

Florida was a major contributor of beef, salt, and other supplies to the Confederacy. To facilitate the supply chain, the state was divided into five commissary districts under the overall command of Major Pleasant W. White of Quincy.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Taylor |first1=Robert |title=Cow Cavalry: Munnerlyn's Battalion in Florida, 1864-1865 |journal=Florida Historical Quarterly |date=1986 |volume=65 |issue=2 |pages=196–214 |url=https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol65/iss2/6/ |jstor=30146741 }}</ref>