Short answers, pulled from the story.
Florida officially seceded on the 10th of January 1861 after delegates in Tallahassee voted sixty-two to seven. This decision made Florida the third state to leave the Union following South Carolina and Mississippi.
Florida served as a vital supplier of beef cattle, salt, and cotton for the Confederate Army throughout the war. The state possessed an eight thousand four hundred thirty-six mile coastline that facilitated blockade running despite constant Union naval patrols.
The only major engagement occurred near Lake City at Olustee in February 1864. A Confederate force of over five thousand men repelled a Union attempt to disrupt the food producing region led by General Truman Seymour.
A total of one thousand forty-four African Americans from Florida served in the Union Army or Navy. Beginning in 1863 over a thousand enlisted as soldiers in the United States Colored Troops or sailors in the Navy.
Union Brigadier General Edward M. McCook read Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation on the 20th of May 1865 during a ceremony in Tallahassee. The reading took place at the Knott House where he officially enforced freedom within the state.