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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 ...
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 ...
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.
After the war, the Florida State Troops reorganized into two regiments of infantry and the Franklin Guards became Company L, First Regiment [10] on August 18, 1899, still part of the 3rd Battalion. [11] Fort Coombs Armory, built in 1901, and named after James Percy Coombs, a commander of the local company and later the mayor of Apalachicola. [12]
Washington Grays is an American march composed by Claudio S. Grafulla in 1861. It is a mainstay of both the parade and concert band march repertoire. Grafulla's most popular piece was composed for the 8th Regiment, a New York state militia based at the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx.
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 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 ...
The 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry regiment did an expedition up the St. Mary's River along the Georgia-Florida state line which lasted from January 23 to February 1, 1863. The regiment captured and occupied Jacksonville, Florida on March 10, 1863 and did other skirmishes along the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.