CONFEDERATE FLORIDA TROOPS
5th Regiment, Florida Infantry
- Overview:
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5th Infantry Regiment completed its organization at Tallahassee, Florida, during the spring
of 1862. Companies that made up the unit were from the counties of Santa Rosa, Baker, Polk,
Calhoun, Okaloosa, Wakulla, Madison, and Liberty. Ordered to Virginia with over 1,000 men it
served in General Pryor's, E.A. Perry's, and Finegan's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. The
regiment fought with the army from Second Manassas to Cold Harbor, then was active in the
Petersburg trenches south
of the James River and the Appomattox Campaign. Only 1 man
was wounded at Fredericksburg
, but the unit lost 6 killed and 22 wounded at Chancellorsville and thirty-five
percent of the 321 at Gettysburg
. It surrendered with 6 officers and 47 men. The field officers were Colonels John C. Hately
and Thomas B. Lamar, and Major Benjamin F. Davis.
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