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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.
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
1st Confederate Infantry (1st Confederate Regiment, Georgia Volunteers) 2nd Confederate Infantry; 3rd Confederate Infantry (Marmaduke's 18th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, and additional Tennessee units) [2] 4th Confederate Infantry (1st Regiment, Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi Infantry)
1st Brigade BG R.W. Carswell. 1st Regiment State Troops: Col Edward H. Pottle; 2nd Regiment State Troops: Col Charles D. Anderson; 5th Regiment State Troops: Col S.S. Stanford; 1st Battalion State Troops: Ltc H.K. McCay; 2nd Brigade BG Pleasant J. Philips. 3rd Regiment State Troops: Col Q.M. Hill; 4th Regiment State Troops: Col Robert McMillan
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 ...
Major General, Florida Militia Born June 4, 1798, in Buckland, Massachusetts. U.S. Army Major, Corps of Engineers. Designed, construction many Gulf Coast forts, especially at Pensacola. Resigned as Major, U.S. Army, October 31, 1856, after 41 years. As Florida militia colonel, demanded surrender of Fort Pickens at Pensacola in January 1861.