History of the 2nd Florida Co. I. "Hamilton Blues"

Florida Secedes from the Union

In early January 1861, a special convention of delegates from around the state met in Tallahassee to consider whether Florida should leave the Union. Governor Madison Starke Perry and Governor-elect John Milton were both strong supporters of secession. For days, the issues were debated inside and outside the convention. In a minority opinion, former territorial governor Richard Keith Call, acting as a private citizen, argued that secession would bring only ruin to the state.

On January 10, 1861, the delegates voted sixty-two to seven to withdraw Florida from the Union. The next day, in a public ceremony on the east steps of the capitol, they signed a formal Ordinance of Secession. News of the event generally led to local celebrations. Later, the delegates adopted a new state constitution. Florida was the third state to leave the Union, and within a month it joined with other southern states to form the Confederate States of America.

Ordinance of Secession. (Transcript)

We, the People of the State of Florida in Convention assembled, do solemnly ordain, publish and declare: That the State of Florida hereby withdraws herself from the Confederacy of States existing under the name of the United States of America, and from the existing Government of said States; and that all political connection between her and the Government of said States ought to be and the same is hereby totally annulled, and said union of States dissolved; and the State of Florida is hereby declared a Sovereign and Independent Nation; and that all ordinances heretofore adopted in so far as they create or recognize said Union are rescinded; and all laws or parts of laws in force in this State, in so far as they recognize or assent to said Union be and they are hereby repealed.

Done in open Convention, January 10th, A.D. 1861

Florida's Secession Flag
Helen Broward, of Broward's Neck in Duval County, and other southern women who supported the secessionist cause made and presented this flag to Florida Governor Madison S. Perry. It was unfurled by Governor-elect John Milton on the east porch of the state capitol when the delegates signed Florida's Ordinance of Secession on January 11, 1861. The three large stars represent the first three states to leave the Union: South Carolina, Mississippi, and Florida. The flag's motto, "The Rights of the South at All Hazards!", echoes the uncompromising position of southern supporters on the eve of the Civil War. The banner reportedly hung above the speaker's desk in the Florida House of Representatives throughout the war.

At the war's end, the banner still hung in the capitol and reportedly was taken as a trophy by a Union army officer during the postwar occupation of the building. It is recorded that this officer later felt guilty about taking the banner and gave it to a Mrs. Hasson, the wife of a military doctor, to return it to the state. The Hassons moved to the western U.S. shortly after this incident. It was not until 1911 that Mrs. Hasson sent the flag to a Florida member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, who then returned it to the State of Florida.

 

MILITARY ORGANIZATION

The 2nd Florida Regiment, as it was first organized, was composed of ten companies as follows:

In the early days of July [1861] these ten companies were ordered to rendezvous near the Brick Church, just west of Jacksonville, now [1903] known as LaVilla, and on July 13 the Regiment [Companies B through L] was mustered into the Confederate service by Maj. W. T. Stockton. The Regiment was organized by the election of George T. Ward, of Leon county, Colonel; S. St. George Rogers, of Marion county, Lieutenant-Colonel; and Louis G. Pyles, of Alachua county, Major. The following Staff appointments were then made: Dr. Thomas Palmer, Surgeon; Dr. Thomas W. Hendry, Assistant Surgeon; Capt. Edward M. L'Engle, Assistant Quartermaster; Capt. W. A. Daniel, Assistant Commissary; Lieut. R. B. Thomas, Adjutant; Edward Houston, Sergeant Major; T. W. Givens, Quartermaster Sergeant.

On Monday, July 15th, the Regiment left by rail for Virginia, arriving in Richmond Sunday afternoon, July 21st [1861]. The Regiment was in Camp of Instruction, in the neighborhood of Richmond, nearly two months. On September 17, 1861, the Regiment left Richmond for Yorktown, where they were joined by the Rifle Rangers of Escambia county (Co. A), Capt. E. A. Perry. [Company M was most probably added to the Regiment in the same time frame.]

During the fall of 1861, and the winter following, the Regiment was encamped near Yorktown, forming a part of Major General J. B. Magruder's Command. Early in October Lieutenant Thomas was ordered to report to Richmond and Lieut. Seaton Fleming was assigned to duty as Adjutant. It was at the siege of Yorktown that the Regiment received its "baptism of fire." On May 5th [1862], at Williamsburg, the Regiment again distinguished itself by its gallant resistance to McClellan's advance. In this battle Col. George T. Ward was killed, and Companies E, D and L each lost one man, making four killed; and every company in the Regiment had one or more wounded, making thirty wounded. Among the seriously wounded was Lieut. C.S. Fleming. The 2nd Florida, being twelve months' men, were by Act of Congress required to remain in the service two years longer; this act was known as the Conscript Laws and gave them a right to reorganize by a re-election of officers, which should have taken place on May 3rd; but owing to the battle of Williamsburg reorganization did not take place until the following week or May l0th. At the reorganization Capt. E. A. Perry was elected Colonel; Maj. L. G. Pyles, Lieutenant-Colonel; and Capt. George W. Call, Major. All the companies in the Regiment changed their captains except B and C. On May 31st [1862] the Regiment was engaged in the battle of Seven Pines, where it lost 6 officers., 4 non-commissioned and 24 privates killed. Wounded, 17 officers, 21 non-commissioned officers and 106 privates; total casualties, 178. In the battle of Seven Pines Maj. George W. Call was killed, and Lieut-Col. L. G. Pyles was wounded and disabled. Of the eleven captains who went into the battle, four, J. H. Pooser, C. S. Flagg, A. C. Butler and T. A. Perry were killed, and six, W. D. Ballantin (Co. A), Lew Williams (Co. B), W. R. Moore (Co. C), M. G. C. Musgrove (Co. D), W. E. Caslin (Co. E) and M. J. Duncan (Co. I) were wounded. Shortly after the battle of Seven Pines Co. M was assigned to this Regiment, making twelve companies in all. After the battle of Seven Pines followed in quick succession the battles of Cold Harbor, Gaines' Mill, Savage Station, Frazier's Farm and Malvern Hill. In the battles of Ellison's Mill and Frazier's Farm, June 26 and 27 [1862], the Regiment lost 8 killed and 52 wounded; among the killed was G. W. Parkhill, Captain of Co. M. At the battle of Frazier's Farm, June 30 [1862], the Regiment lost: Killed, 2 officers, 1 non-commissioned officer and 11 privates; wounded, 3 officers, 2 non-commissioned officers and 62 privates. Among the wounded was Col. E. A. Perry.

Following the battle of Frazier's Farm came the Maryland campaign. On December 13[1862] the battle of Fredericksburg was fought. The Regiment lost: killed, 1 non-commissioned officer and 3 privates; wounded, 4 officers, 5 non-commissioned officers and 25 privates (casualties in Co. K not reported). A partial report of the casualties at Chancellorsville [May 1863] show 3 officers and 17 privates wounded, and 3 privates killed. In the battle of Gettysburg [July 1863]: Killed, 6 officers, 4 non-commissioned officers and 5 privates; wounded, 6 officers, 6 non-commissioned officers and 54 privates; total casualties, 81. There is no report accessible of the casualties during the year 1864 and 1865, and it was during these years that some of the most desperate and bloody battles were fought; and in all of them the 2nd Florida did its full measure of duty. It was but a skeleton of a splendid regiment that surrendered at Appomatox Court House -- but 7 officers and 59 men."

[Source: "Soldiers of Florida in the Seminole Indian-Civil and Spanish-American Wars." Prepared and published under the supervision of the Board of State Institutions, As authorized by Chapter 2203 Laws of Florida, approved May 14, 1903. Printed by Democrat Book and Job Print, Live Oak, Florida.]

Assignments:

Unattached, Army of the Peninsula (September 1861)
Rains' Division, Army of the Peninsula (December 1861 - April 1862)
Ward's Command, D. H. Hill's Division, Department of Northern Virginia (April - May 1862)
Garland's Brigade, D. H. Hill's Division, Department of Northern Virginia (May - June 1862)
Pryor's Brigade, Longstreet's Division, Army of Northern Virginia (June - July 1862)
Pryor's Brigade, Longstreet's Division, 1st Corps, Army of Northern Virginia (July - September 1862)
Pryor's-Perry's Brigade, Anderson's Division, 1st Corps, Army of Northern Virginia (September 1862 - May 1863)
Pryor's-Finegan's Brigade, Anderson's-Mahone's Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia (May 1863 - April 1865)


Battles:

Yorktown Siege (April - May 1862)
Williamsburg (May 5, 1862)
Seven Pines (May 31 - June 1, 1862)
Seven Days Battles (June 25 - July 1, 1862)
Beaver Dam Creek (June 26, 1862)
Gaines' Mill (June 27, 1862)
Frayser's Farm (June 30, 1862)
2nd Bull Run (August 28-30, 1862)
Antietam (September 17, 1862)
Fredericksburg (December 13, 1862)
Chancellorsville (May 1-4, 1863)
Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863)
Bristoe Campaign (October 1863)
Mine Run Campaign (November - December 1863)
The Wilderness (May 5-6, 1864)
Spotsylvania Court House (May 8-21, 1864)
North Anna (May 22-26, 1864)
Cold Harbor (June 1-3, 1864)
Petersburg Siege (June 1864 - April 1865)
Weldon Railroad (June 23, 1864)
Ream's Station (June 30, 1864)
Weldon Railroad (August 21, 1864)
Bellfield (December 9, 1864)
Hatcher's Run (February 5-7, 1865)
Farmville(April 7, 1865)
Appomattox Court House (April 9, 1865)

 

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of Northern Virginia
  Corps - Longstreet's Command
  Division - Anderson's Division
  Brigade - Pryor's Brigade

 

The Florida State Song

The Swanee River (Old Folks at Home)

Words and music by Stephen C. Foster (1826-1864)

 
   FIRST VERSE
    Way down upon de Swanee Ribber,
    Far, far away,
    Dere's wha my heart is turning ebber,
    Dere's wha de old folks stay.
    All up and down de whole creation
    Sadly I roam,
    Still longing for de old plantation,
    And for de old folks at home.
   CHORUS
    All de world am sad and dreary,
    Eb-rywhere I roam;
    Oh, darkeys, *how my heart grows weary,
    Far from de old folks at home!
   SECOND VERSE
    All round de little farm I wandered
    When I was young,
    Den many happy days I squandered,
    Many de songs I sung.
    When I was playing wid my brudder
    Happy was I;
    Oh, take me to my kind old mudder!
    Dere let me live and die.
   THIRD VERSE
    One little hut among de bushes,
    One dat I love
    Still sadly to my memory rushes,
    No matter where I rove.
    When will I see de bees a-humming
    All round de comb?
    When will I hear de banjo strumming,
    Down in my good old home? 
 
 

 

Additional Information

      Florida contributed more than 15,000 troops to the Confederate war effort. While this was a small number when compared with other southern states, it was the highest percentage of available men of military age from any Confederate state. Florida troops were organized into eleven regiments of infantry; two regiments of cavalry; and numerous smaller units, including artillery, home-guard, and militia.
      By mid-1862 most of Florida's soldiers had been sent outside the state. In the Army of Northern Virginia, Florida units were organized into a Florida Brigade. Later, a second Florida Brigade was formed from units serving in the other major Confederate army, the Army of Tennessee. Floridians fought in most of the major battles of the war, including the epic Battle of Gettysburg, where they suffered heavy casualties.
      Patriotism for the southern cause, so common at the beginning of the war, was later tempered by exposure to an increasing amount of death and suffering. At first, the South relied on volunteers, but as early as April 1862 it was necessary to institute a draft in order to fill the ranks. Draftees and those disillusioned by years of war increasingly deserted the Confederate ranks in the latter part of the conflict. Bands of deserters in Florida operated against southern authority in parts of the state.
      Approximately 5,000 Floridians (about one out of every three soldiers) died or were killed in Confederate service. Many of those who survived were disabled or had their lives shortened due to health problems related to the hardships of military service.

   

     Probably the most infamous of all the men in Co. I was Lewis Thornton Powell. Lewis Powell was born in Randolph County, Alabama on April 22, 1844 to a Baptist minister, George Cader, and his young wife Patience Caroline Powell. The youngest of ten children, he spent the first three years of his life in Randolph County before his father was ordained and the family moved to Stewart County, Georgia. Powell and his siblings were all educated by their father who was the school master at the school. In his early years, Lewis was described as quiet and introverted. He enjoyed reading and studying. An animal lover who took the liberty to nurse and care for sick and stray animals, he earned the nickname 'Doc'. When Lewis was 13, he was violently kicked in the face by the family's donkey, breaking his jaw. The break healed, making his jaw more prominent on the left side of his face. After some years in Stewart County, the family moved to Worth County, then finally moving to Live Oak, Florida in 1859, when Lewis was 15.
        On May 30, 1861 at age 17, Lewis left home and enlisted in the 2nd Florida Infantry, Company I in Jasper, Florida. Sometime in November, 1862, he was hospitalized for "sickness" at General Hospital #11 in Richmond, Virginia. He went on to fight at numerous battles unscathed before being wounded in the wrist on the second day of fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, from where he was captured and sent to a POW hospital at Pennsylvania College.[1] Powell stayed at Pennsylvania College until September, when he was transferred to West Buildings Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. It was at West Buildings where Powell met and developed a relationship with a volunteer nurse named Margaret "Maggie" Branson. It was believed that it was with the help of Branson that Lewis was able to escape the hospital within a week of his arrival, fleeing to Alexandria, Virginia.                                                                                                                      

        Back in Virginia, he located Colonel John Singleton Mosby and his cavalry in late fall 1863 and rode with the 43rd Battalion, Company B. After leaving the company, he returned to Baltimore on January 13, 1865, crossing the lines at Alexandria. Powell returned to the boarding house of Maggie Branson. During his time with the Rangers, in 1864, Powell became involved in the Confederate Secret Service. It was in Baltimore that he was arrested for severely beating a black servant at the Branson house. He was arrested and held in jail 2 days on charges of being a "spy". Required to sign an Oath of Allegiance, he did so, under the name Lewis Paine. It was also in Baltimore that he met fellow CSS operative John Surratt through a man named David Preston Parr, also with the CSS.

After being escorted to the Seward residence by David Herold, Powell attempted to kill William Seward on April 14, 1865, the same night that John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, by breaking into his bedroom and stabbing him repeatedly. Earlier in the month, on April 5, 1865, Seward had been injured in a carriage accident, and suffered a concussion, a broken jaw, a broken right arm, and many serious bruises. A jaw splint worn by Seward helped to save his life by deflecting the knife away from his jugular vein. He also injured two of Seward's children, his nurse, Sergeant George F. Robinson, and messenger Emerick Hansell, who arrived right as Powell was escaping. Another member of the conspiracy, George Atzerodt, failed to kill Vice-President Andrew Johnson, because he lost his nerve and got drunk.

     After the attempt on Seward's life, Powell threw his bloody knife up into the gutter of the Seward house and fled on horseback. He discarded his light colored coat in a Washington suburb cemetery where he hid. At some point, the horse, purchased by John Wilkes Booth in December 1864, that Powell was riding either threw him or he fell off. The horse was later found near the Lincoln Branch Barracks, close to the Capitol.[2] After hiding out for three days, Powell went to Mary Surratt's boardinghouse only to arrive at the same time that she was being arrested for her part in the assassination.[2] Although it was night time, when asked why he was there, carrying a pickaxe, Powell claimed that he had been hired to dig a gutter.[2] Surratt denied knowing who he was, despite his having visited and stayed at the boardinghouse on several occasions. Powell was arrested and taken to the Navy Yard, where he was housed aboard the monitor USS Saugus.

Powell was tried under the name of "Payne" by a military tribunal. He was represented by William E. Doster, a Yale and Harvard graduate the former District of Columbia provost marshal. Thirty two witnesses were called to testify concerning Powell, including Seward's son, Augustus, and William Bell, who worked for the Seward household as a servant and doorman, and who admitted Powell the night of the assassination attempt.
      The evidence was overwhelming against Powell; it included a performance at Ford Theatre attended by Powell, John Wilkes Booth, and two boarders from Mary Surratt's boardinghouse, Honora Fitzpatrick and Apollonia Dean.[2] Doster tried to argue that Powell was insane at the time of the assassination attempt, an argument refuted by physicians called on behalf of the prosecution.[2] He then argued that Powell was acting as a soldier, attempting to complete his duty as he had been ordered. The commission rejected this defense as well and Powell was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and treason.

      Powell was executed with three other conspirators on July 7, 1865. He went to the gallows calmly and quietly, though at some point he was believed to have pleaded for the life of Mary Surratt shortly before he was hanged. His spiritual advisor, Rev. Gillette, thanked the guards for their good treatment of him while he was in prison, on his behalf. He insisted to his death that Mrs. Surratt was innocent.

      While hangman Christian Rath was placing the noose over young Powell's head he remarked, "I hope you die quick." He had been impressed by Powell's courage and determination in the face of death. To this Powell replied, "You know best, captain." However Powell did not die quickly as hoped by Rath. After the drop he struggled for life more than five minutes. His body swinging wildly, twice he "Moved his legs up into the sitting position" and was the last to die. George Atzerodt died instantly with a broken neck. David Herold gave a brief shudder and urinated. Mary Surratt, whose neck did not break upon impact, also shuddered for several minutes before dying.

        In January 1992, Powell's skull was discovered and stored at the Smithsonian Anthropology Department. Two years later the skull was re-interred with the rest of his remains at the Geneva Cemetery in Seminole County, Florida, next to the grave of his mother.

        On April 13, Booth, George Atzerodt and David Herold all met at Powell's room at a boarding house in Washington, where Booth assigned roles. Powell was to go to the home of Secretary of State William Seward and kill him, accompanied by Herold. Atzerodt would assassinate Vice President Johnson, and Booth; Abraham Lincoln.

 

Private Lewis Thornton Powell aka Paine

Lewis Thornton Powell in irons aboard the U.S. Monitor Saugus (Library of Congress LC-B817- 7773)

 Miscellaneous

Lewis Powell in hat and overcoat on U.S. monitor Saugus (Library of Congress LC-B817- 7775)

 

 

 

Gravestone of Lewis Thornton Powell (Abraham Lincoln Research Site)

 

 Lewis Powell attacking Frederick Seward after attempting to shoot him.

 

Timeline of Lewis Thornton Powell

 Date

Event

Location

Rank

Unit

  

  April 22, 1844

Born

Randolph County, AL

 

 

  

  May 30, 1861

Appeared on roll

 

Private

Company I, 2nd Florida Infantry

 

  June 4, 1861

Enlisted

Jasper, FL

Private

Company I, 2nd Florida Infantry

 

  November 1862

Hospitalized

General Hospital #11, Richmond, VA

 

 

  

  July 2, 1863

Wounded

Gettysburg, PA

 

 

  

  July 2, 1863

Captured

Gettysburg, PA

 

 

  

  January 13, 1865

Took the oath

 

 

 

  

  July 7, 1865

Executed

Washington, DC

 

 

  

  November 12, 1994

Interred

Geneva Cemetery, Geneva, FL

 

 

  

Executed July 7, 1865 at Washington, District of Columbia County, DC.  Hung for the attempted murder of Secretary of State Seward as part of the Lincoln assassination conspiracy.  Had Lewis Thornton Powell succeed in assassinating Secretary of State William Henry Seward, Alaska might never have become part of the United States.

William Henry Seward, Sr. (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was a Governor of New York, United States Senator and the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. An outspoken opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War, he was a dominant figure in the Republican party in its formative years, and was widely regarded as the leading contender for the party's presidential nomination in 1860 – yet his very outspokenness may have cost him the nomination. Despite his loss, he became a loyal member of Lincoln's wartime cabinet, and played a role in preventing foreign intervention early in the war. On the night of Lincoln's assassination, he survived an attempt on his life in the conspirators' effort to decapitate the Union government. As Johnson's Secretary of State, he engineered the purchase of Alaska from Russia in an act that was ridiculed at the time as "Seward's Folly," but which exemplified his character. His contemporary Carl Schurz described Seward as "one of those spirits who sometimes will go ahead of public opinion instead of tamely following its footprints."

 24th Secretary of State William Henry Seward.

The Alaska Purchase, historically also referred to as Seward's Folly, was the purchase of Alaska by the United States from the Russian Empire in 1867. The purchase, done at the behest of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward, gained 586,412 square miles (1,518,800 km²) of new United States territory. Originally organized as the Department of Alaska, the area was successively the District of Alaska and the Alaska Territory before becoming the modern state of Alaska upon being admitted to the Union in 1959.

 

2nd Lt. John Quincy Stewart

 Prewar Residences

Prewar Occupations

Postwar Residences

Postwar Occupations

Miscellaneous

Timeline of John Quincy Stewart

March 22, 1832

Born

Jasper, FL

 

 

 

  May 30, 1861

Appeared on roll

 

1st Lieutenant

Company I, 2nd Florida Infantry

 

  June 4, 1861

Enlisted

Jasper, FL

1st Lieutenant

Company I, 2nd Florida Infantry

 

  May 11, 1862

Resigned

 

 

 

 

  August 2, 1862

Enlisted

Jasper, FL

Captain

Company C, 2nd Florida Battalion

 

  August 23, 1864

Furloughed

 

 

 

 

  December 18, 1864

AWOL

 

 

 

 

  January 31, 1865

Resigned

 

 

 

 

  December 1865

Married

 

 

 

 

  February 16, 1895

Died

 

 

 

 

 

Interred

Cocoa, FL

 

 

 

 

Col. George T. Ward

Colonel George T. Ward, 2nd Florida Infantry, CSA (Florida State Archives).

 

Grave of Colonel George T. Ward, CSA (Tom McMahon)

Prewar Occupations

Miscellaneous

Timeline of Col. George T. Ward

 Date

Event

Location

Rank

Unit

 

  1810

Born

Fayette County, KY

 

 

 

  February 8, 1844

Married

Leon County, FL

 

 

 

  July 12, 1861

Elected

Jacksonville, FL

Colonel

Staff, 2nd Florida Infantry

 

  May 5, 1862

Killed

Williamsburg, VA

 

 

 

  May 6, 1862

Interred

Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, VA

 

 

 

 

Private Francis Marion Hall

Prewar Residences

Postwar Occupations

Miscellaneous

 

 Date

Event

Location

Rank

Unit

 

  July 18, 1842

Born

Irwin County, GA

 

 

 

  May 30, 1861

Appeared on roll

 

Private

Company I, 2nd Florida Infantry

 

  June 4, 1861

Enlisted

Jasper, FL

Private

Company I, 2nd Florida Infantry

 

  June 30, 1862

Wounded

Glendale, VA

 

 

 

  July 3, 1863

Captured

Gettysburg, PA

 

 

 

  July 12, 1863

Imprisoned

Fort Delaware Prison, Delaware City, DE

 

 

 

  June 10, 1865

Released on oath

Fort Delaware Prison, Delaware City, DE

 

 

 

  September 19, 1865

Married

 

 

 

 

  March 31, 1911

Died

Hastings, FL

 

 

 

 

 

Private William Washington Tootle

Prewar Occupations

 

 Date

Event

Location

Rank

Unit

 

  1834

Born

 

 

 

 

  June 4, 1861

Enlisted

Jasper, FL

Private

Company I, 2nd Florida Infantry

 

  February 8, 1862

Died

Buglers Mill, VA

 

 

 

 

Private Silas Taft Overstreet

Prewar Occupations

Postwar Occupations

Miscellaneous

 Date

Event

Location

Rank

Unit

 

  April 3, 1830

Born

Madison County, FL

 

 

 

  May 30, 1861

Appeared on roll

 

Private

Company I, 2nd Florida Infantry

 

  June 4, 1861

Enlisted

Jasper, FL

Private

Company I, 2nd Florida Infantry

 

  October 25, 1862

Discharged

General Hospital #11, Richmond, VA

 

 

 

  April 5, 1864

Married

 

 

 

 

  November 6, 1877

Married

 

 

 

 

  October 3, 1905

Died

Live Oak, FL

 

 

 

 

Private William Raybon Overstreet

Private William Raybon Overstreet (above)

 Prewar Occupations

Miscellaneous

1828

Born

 

 

 

 

  June 4, 1861

Enlisted

Jasper, FL

Private

Company I, 2nd Florida Infantry

 

  January 20, 1862

Wounded

Wynn's Mill, VA

 

 

 

 

Discharged

 

 

 

 

  April 12, 1862

Enlisted

Columbus, FL

Private

Company H, 8th Florida Infantry

 

  July 5, 1863

Captured

Gettysburg, PA

 

 

 

 

Imprisoned

Fort Delaware Prison, Delaware City, DE

 

 

 

  October 17, 1863

Died

Fort Delaware Prison, Delaware City, DE

 

 

 

 

Interred

Fort Delaware Prison Cemetery, Delaware City, DE

 

 

 

 

 

Surgeon Moses Shaw Thomas

 Date

Event

Location

Rank

Unit

 

  October 16, 1861

Appointed

 

Surgeon

Staff, 2nd Florida Infantry

 

  April 9, 1865

Paroled

Appomattox, VA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Private William Anderson Bryant

Prewar Occupations

Postwar Residences

Miscellaneous

 

 

October 5, 1844

Born

Blount County, TN

 

 

 

  June 4, 1861

Enlisted

Jasper, FL

Private

Company I, 2nd Florida Infantry

 

  Mid 1862

Wounded

 

 

 

 

  October 27, 1862

Furloughed

 

 

 

 

  Early 1865

Deserted

 

 

 

 

  December 16, 1866

Married

 

 

 

 

  October 18, 1923

Died

Alachua County, FL

 

 

 

 

Private Isham Dies

Date

Event

Location

Rank

Unit

 

  February 1, 1864

Enlisted

Lake City, FL

Private

Company I, 2nd Florida Infantry

 

 

Transferred

 

Private

Company K, 8th Florida Infantry

 

  June 20, 1864

Wounded

Cold Harbor, VA

 

 

 

 

Furloughed

 

 

 

 

 

Absent

 

 

 

 

 

Private James Ladston Jordan

Postwar Occupations

Miscellaneous

May 10, 1846

Born

McDade's Pond, FL

 

 

 

  March 25, 1862

Enlisted

Bluff Springs, FL

Private

Company I, 1st Florida Infantry (New)

 

  January 1864

Wounded

Marietta, GA

 

 

 

  Early 1864

Absent

Pollard, AL

 

 

 

  Early 1865

Furloughed

 

 

 

 

 

Married

 

 

 

 

  November 23, 1920

Died

 

 

 

 

 

Interred

Travelers Rest Cemetery, Flomaton, AL

 

 

 

 

 

 

Colonel Walter Raleigh Moore

 Grave of Col. Walter Raleigh Moore

 

Miscellaneous

Date

Event

Location

Rank

Unit

 

  May 9, 1832

Born

Warsaw, NC

 

 

 

  May 23, 1861

Enlisted

Lake City, FL

Captain

Company C, 2nd Florida Infantry

 

  May 31, 1862

Wounded

Seven Pines, VA

 

 

 

  May 31, 1862

Promoted

 

Major

Staff, 2nd Florida Infantry

 

  May 3, 1863

Wounded

Chancellorsville, VA

 

 

 

 

Hospitalized

 

 

 

 

  July 2, 1863

Wounded

Gettysburg, PA

 

 

 

  July 3, 1863

Captured

Gettysburg, PA

 

 

 

 

Imprisoned

Johnson's Island Prison, Mineyahta-on-the-Bay, OH

 

 

 

  Sometime in 1863

Promoted

 

Lieutenant Colonel

Staff, 2nd Florida Infantry

 

  July 12, 1864

Promoted

 

Colonel

Staff, 2nd Florida Infantry

 

  October 11, 1864

Exchanged

 

 

 

 

  October 21, 1864

Furloughed

 

 

 

 

  December 6, 1864

Married

Columbia County, FL

 

 

 

  April 9, 1865

Paroled

Appomattox, VA

 

 

 

  October 9, 1898

Died

Wellborn, FL

 

 

 

 

Interred

Huntsville Methodist Church, Lake City, FL

 

 

 

Wakulla County, Florida, Civil War Veterans, probably 1904 Courtesy of Florida State Univ.

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