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FEATURES: CIVIL WAR UNITS: 1st Florida Infantry Regiment, CSA [BACK]



First Florida Infantry, (Old) Company F

Captain Richard H. Bradford (born 1836)

...enlisted March 28, 1861 at Madison. He was killed on the morning of October 9, 1861 at Santa Rosa Island: " ... was shot in the breast and instantly killed, while leading his men ..." His cousin, Edward Bradford, brought the body home and Richard was buried in God's Acre at Pine Hill. Governor John Milton delivered the eulogy. He was the first Confederate officer from Florida to die in the war and, in his memory, New River County was changed to Bradford County December 6, 1861.




FEATURES: CIVIL WAR UNITS: 1st Florida Infantry Regiment, CSA [BACK]


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