1st Florida Infantry Regiment
Organization: Organized and mustered into Confederate service for 12
months at Chattahoochee on April 5, 1861. Failed at reorganization about
February 1862. Men who reenlisted organized into four companies as the 1st
(McDonell's) Infantry Battalion about February 1862.
First Commander: J. Patton Anderson (Colonel)
Field Officers: William H. Beard (Lieutenant Colonel), Thaddeus A.
McDonell (Major)
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)
Battles:
- Santa Rosa Island (October 9, 1861)
The first regiment organized was the 1st Florida Infantry. It was
composed of two companies from Leon, two companies from Alachua and one each
from Franklin, Jackson, Madison, Gadsen, Jefferson and Escambia counties. These
companies, with the exception of Company K (Pensacola Guards), which was from
Escambia County, rendezvoused at Chattahoochee arsenal where they went into Camp
of Instruction. There, on April 5, 1861, was mustered into the military service
of the Confederate States for twelve months, and was organized by the election
of Captain James Patton Anderson, of Jefferson County, Colonel; William K.
Beard, of Leon County, as Lieutenant Colonel, and Thadeus MacDonell, of Alachua
County as Major. Upon the completion of the organization of the regiment it was
ordered to Pensacola where it arrived April 12, 1861, and there joined by
Company K. Like all regiments mustered in the early days of 1861, it enlisted
for twelve months and served almost its entire term in Pensacola and in that
vicinity.
Richard H. Bradford
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