1st Florida Infantry
| 1st Florida Infantry Regiment 1st (McDonell's) Battalion, Florida Infantry 1st and 3rd Consolidated Florida Infantry Regiment |
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 Flag of the 1st and 3rd Consolidated Florida Infantry Regiment
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| Active | 1st Florida Infantry Regiment (May 5, 1861 — May 1862) 1st (McDonell's) Florida Infantry Battalion (May 1862 — August 1862) 1st Florida Infantry Regiment (August 1862 — December 1862) 1st and 3rd Consolidated Florida Infantry Regiment (December 1862 — April 9, 1865) 1st Florida Infantry Regiment (April 9, 1865 — April 26, 1865) |
| Country | Confederate States of America |
| Allegiance |
Confederate Florida Confederate States of America |
| Branch | Confederate States Army |
| Type | Regiment / Battalion |
| Role | Infantry |
| Part of |
Army of Tennessee Army of Mississippi Army of Pensacola |
| Equipment | .69 Springfield Model 1842 |
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| Commanders | |
| Notable commanders |
Col. James Patton Anderson Maj. Thaddeus A. McDonell Col. William Miller Col. William S. Dilworth Lt. Col. Elisha Mashburn |
The 1st Florida Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised by the Confederate state of Florida during the American Civil War. Raised for 12 months of service its remaining veterans served in the 1st (McDonell's) Battalion, Florida Infantry from April 1862 on. In August the depleted battalion was consolidated with the 3rd (Miller's) Battalion into the reorganized 1st Florida Infantry Regiment again. In December 1862 it merged with the 3rd Florida Infantry Regiment and received the form it kept till the wars end as the 1st and 3rd Consolidated Florida Infantry Regiment. Fighting as part of the Army of Tennessee in the Western Theater of the American Civil War it was surrendered on April 26, 1865.
When the civil war erupted in 1861 Florida hastened to raise a regiment of infantry. In March, at Chattahoochee Arsenal, men from the counties of Leon, Alachua, Madison, Jefferson, Jackson, Franklin, Gadsden, and Escambia assembled, and on May 5, 1861 the 1st Florida Infantry Regiment was mustered into state service. Like all regiments mustered in the early days of 1861, it enlisted for twelve months. Because of the haste the regiment totaled about 700 men in 9 companies with an insufficient number of uniforms and weapons. The elected staff officers were James Patton Anderson, of Jefferson County, Colonel; William K. Beard, of Leon County, as Lieutenant Colonel, and Thaddeus A. McDonell, of Alachua County as Major. Upon the completion of the organization the regiment was ordered to Pensacola where it arrived April 12, 1861. There it was mustered into Confederate service on April 19.
In June the regiment received its tenth company, the local Pensacola Guards. Now the regiment was part of the Army of Pensacola under command of Brigadier General Sam Jones. On October 9, 1861 a detachment of 180 men from all companies of the regiment participated in the unsuccessful attempt to capture Fort Pickens. Under command of Colonel Anderson, leading a column with his Floridians and men from Louisiana and Alabama, the regiment lost 7 dead, 8 wounded and 12 men captured. The regiment joined General Braxton Bragg on his westbound journey in March 1862, and went to Corinth. When the service time of the regiment came to its end it failed to reorganize in early 1862 when only 300 of the remaining 600 men, enough for four companies, reenlisted. Those were organized into four companies under the command of Major McDonnell, as Lt. Col. Beard was appointed Inspector General of Bragg's II Corps. The 1st (McDonell's) Florida Infantry Battalion, as it was now known, and its 328 men were just in time for the Battle of Shiloh.
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