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When the civil war erupted in 1861 Florida hastened to raise a regiment of infantry.On January 6, state militia occupied the Apalachicola Arsenal at Chattahoochee and the following day the Fort Marion in St. Augustine. on May 5, 1861, men from the counties of Leon, Alachua, Madison, Jefferson, Jackson, Franklin, Gadsden, and Escambia were mustered into state service as the 1st Florida Infantry ...
The Florida units were reorganized 17–18 August 1899 in the Florida State Troops as the 1st and 2nd Regiments of Infantry. [16] The infantrymen from Tallahassee were reorganized as Company G, 1st Regiment in 1899 under command of Captain Lewis M. Liveley. A. C. Spiller took command sometime between January and May 1900.
1st Florida Infantry Regiment; 2nd Florida Infantry Regiment; 3rd Florida Infantry Regiment. Jacksonville Light Infantry (Company A) Saint Augustine Blues (Company B) 4th Florida Infantry Regiment; 5th Florida Infantry Regiment; 6th Florida Infantry Regiment; 7th Florida Infantry Regiment; 8th Florida Infantry Regiment; 9th Florida Infantry ...
1st Battalion State Regiment, 1776–77; 1st Regiment of Militia, 1778–79; 2nd Regiment of Militia, 1776; 3rd Regiment of Foot, 1775; 3rd Regiment of Militia, 1776; 4th Regiment of Militia, 1775–76; 5th Regiment of Militia, 1775–76; 7th Regiment of Militia, 1775–76; 8th Regiment of Militia, 1775–76; 8th Regiment of Militia, 1780
The regiment's coat of arms bears a sheathed Roman sword, derived from the Spanish War Service Medal, representing service during that war. [1] The 1st Florida Volunteer Infantry was expanded and reorganized 17–18 August 1899 in the Florida State Troops as the 1st and 2nd Regiments of Infantry.
The regiment was formed by General Nathaniel P. Banks on October 29, 1863. Recruitment and organization of the unit began at Fort Barrancas and lasted from December, 1863 to August, 1864. It was attached to the 2nd and 3rd Brigades, District West Florida, Army of the Gulf until January 1865, and to the 2nd Brigade of John P. Lucas' Cavalry ...
[5] [6] Depending on the state, they may be variously named as state military, state military force, state guard, state militia, or state military reserve. Every state defense force is also the command authority for the " unorganized militia ", which is defined as every able bodied male between the age of 17 and 45 who is not already serving in ...
The 1st Florida Cavalry was organized in July 1861 just south of Tallahassee. [1] William G. M. Davis, a relatively wealthy lawyer from Leon County, used his own funds to start the regiment and was elected colonel of the unit. Companies that made up the unit were raised from the following counties: Alachua, Clay, Columbia, Duval, Leon, Levy ...