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1st Florida Cavalry Regiment (Confederate)

Field	Value
unit_name	1st Florida Cavalry Regiment
image	1st Florida Cavalry & 4th Florida Infantry Regiments Flag.png
caption	Battle flag of the combined 1st Florida Cavalry and 4th Florida Infantry regiments (1863).
dates	April 5, 1861 - February 1862
country	Confederate States of America
allegiance	Flag of Florida (1861).svg Florida
branch
type	Army Corps
role	infantry tactics
trench warfare
command_structure	Army of Tennessee
battles	American Civil War
website
notable_commanders	Col. William G. M. Davis
Lt. Col. George Troup Maxwell
Lt. Col. William Tennent Stockton
Lt. Col. Benjamin Bradley Sample
identification_symbol_label	Shoulder sleeve insignia

trench warfare

Siege of Knoxville (September—December 1863)
Kentucky Campaign
Battle of Chickamauga
Battle of Chattanooga
Atlanta campaign
Franklin-Nashville Campaign (Tennessee Campaign)
Second Battle of Franklin (Tennessee Campaign)
Battle of Nashville of John Bell Hood (Tennessee Campaign)
Carolinas campaign Lt. Col. George Troup Maxwell Lt. Col. William Tennent Stockton Lt. Col. Benjamin Bradley Sample

Private Walter Miles Parker of the 1st Florida Cavalry

The 1st Florida Cavalry Regiment was a Confederate army unit during the U.S. Civil War, originally organized in July 1861 at Tallahassee. Members of the regiment came primarily from Alachua, Clay, Columbia, Duval, Leon, Levy, Nassau and Suwannee counties. It left for the western theater in 1862.

Organization

The 1st Florida Cavalry was organized in July 1861 just south of Tallahassee. 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, Nassau, and Suwannee.

After mustering in, the unit served in Florida until the spring of 1862, at which time Companies A, E, and F continued to serve as cavalry while the other seven companies were dismounted.

The unit was engaged at the Battle of Missionary Ridge in 1863. During combat, the unit lost its entire officer cadre to casualties. As a result, the 1st Florida Cavalry Regiment was combined with the 4th Florida Infantry Regiment during the 1863-1864 winter camp in Dalton. The new combined unit remained together until the surrender of the Army of Tennessee in 1865.

Assignments

Department of West Florida, April - October 1861
Department of Alabama and West Florida, October 1861
Army of Pensacola, Department of Alabama and West Florida, October 1861 - February 1862
Army of Tennessee, February 1862 - April 1865

Officers of the 1st Florida Cavalry Regiment
Rank
Colonel
Lt. Colonel
Lt. Colonel
Lt. Colonel

Battles

Scouting activities around Union occupied Fernandina Beach in 1861
Siege of Knoxville, September—December 1863
Kentucky Campaign
Battle of Chickamauga
Battle of Chattanooga
Atlanta campaign
Tennessee Campaigns (Franklin-Nashville Campaign, Second Battle of Franklin, and Battle of Nashville) of John Bell Hood
Carolinas campaign

The 1st Florida Cavalry Regiment surrendered in North Carolina in April 1865.

References

"1st Florida Cavalry Regiment". The Ohio State University.
Sheppard, Jonathan C.. (2004). ""Everyday Soldiers": The Florida Brigade of the West, 1861-1862". The Florida State University.
"1st Regiment, Florida Cavalry". National Park Service.
"4th Regiment, Florida Infantry". National Park Service.
Jim Thomas. "Florida 1st Cavalry Staff". Florida State University.
[https://www.floridamemory.com/exhibits/floridahighlights/stockton/ Letters Relating to the Civil War Service of William T. Stockton], Stockton, William Tennent, Papers 1845-1869, Collection M88-21, State Library and Archives of Florida
Sheppard, Jonathan C.. (2012). "By the noble daring of her sons: the Florida Brigade of the Army of Tennessee". University of Alabama Press.
R. Boyd Murphree. "Florida and the Civil War: A Short History". Florida State Library & Archives.

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