He was sent to Florida in 1846, where he spent ten years working on the harbor of St. Augustine and the defenses of Key West.
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In this command he played a major logistical role in the repulse of Confederate General Braxton Bragg's invasion of Kentucky in 1862.
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Lincoln was brusquely ordered to take cover by an officer, possibly Horatio Wright, although other probably apocryphal stories claim that it was Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Private John A. Bedient of the 150th Ohio Infantry, the fort commander, other privates of the Ohio National Guard, and Elizabeth Thomas.