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The 5th Florida Infantry Regiment served in E.A. Perry's Florida Brigade alongside the 2nd and 8th Florida. Perry's Brigade served under Anderson’s Division of Longstreet’s First Corps, of the Army of Northern Virginia. [1] They fought in the Battles of Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, and Antietam from August–September 1862.
The obverse of the Civil War Battlefields commemorative dollar, designed by Don Troiani, features an infantryman raising a canteen to the lips of a wounded foe. The reverse, designed by John Mercanti, features a quotation from Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the college professor from Maine who became one of the heroes of Gettysburg. [2]
The Florida Brigade, also known as The Flowers or Perry's Brigade, was a unit that fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. The brigade was initially composed of three regiments raised out of the state of Florida: the 2nd , 5th , and 8th Florida Infantry .
Serving in the Army of Northern Virginia throughout the war; it fought in most battles of the Eastern Theater. In the summer of 1862, the 8th Florida was organized in Lake City. It was deployed to Virginia with 950 combat effectives [1] and assigned to Edward A. Perry's newly formed Florida Brigade alongside the 2nd and 5th Florida regiments.
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point .
Florida participated in the American Civil War as a member of the Confederate States of America.It had been admitted to the United States as a slave state in 1845. In January 1861, Florida became the third Southern state to secede from the Union after the November 1860 presidential election victory of Abraham Lincoln.
The main and namesake battle of the campaign was the Battle of Gettysburg, which was fought from July 1 to July 3 in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as a turning point of the civil war. The Medal of Honor was awarded to 71 Union ...
From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America. New York: Da Capo Press, 1992. ISBN 0-306-80464-6. First published in 1896 by J. B. Lippincott and Co. Orrison, Robert, and Dan Welch. The Last Road North: A Guide to the Gettysburg Campaign, 1863. Emerging Civil War Series. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2016. ISBN 978-1 ...