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Sunny South Guards
ROLL OF HONOR
The following Florida Veterans are
being honored in this project:
(Click on names for link to biography)
Field &
Staff
Company Officers and Enlisted
**Many of the following men have very little information known
about them. For many, there is no final service date known,
and they could not be located after the War. Are these men
MIA, dying miles away from home? Perhaps they are one of your
family members? If so, we want to know. Please send info
to: info@tampabay150.org
The following 11 men enlisted
after September 1861 (month of Flag Presentation Ceremony), and are
honored for their service as well. Some were from Tampa Bay,
others were from other areas of Florida. Some were from other
areas of the State, but most were from Tampa Bay.
The following Field and Staff Officers
commanded the Sunny South Guard as they were consolidated into the
4th FL Infantry, Co. K. They are not from Tampa Bay but are
are honored in this project.
Field & Staff Officers
A Tribute
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*4th Regiment, Florida Infantry
Service History
4th Infantry Regiment was organized in the
summer of 1861 at Jacksonville, Florida.
The men were raised in the counties of Gadsden, Franklin,
Madison, New River, LaFayette, Columbia, Marion, Levy,
Liberty, Washington, Jackson, and Hillsborough.
For a time it served in Florida, then was assigned to
General Preston's, Stovall's, Finley's, and J.A. Smith's
Brigade, Army of Tennessee.
During December, 1863, it was consolidated with the 1st
Florida Cavalry Regiment. The 4th was engaged at
Murfreesboro and
Jackson, participated in the campaigns of the army from
Chickamauga to
Nashville, and saw action in North Carolina.
It was organized with 983 officers and men and lost
forty-two percent of the 468 engaged at Murfreesboro, forty
percent of the 217 at Chickamauga, and eighty-nine percent
of the 172 at Missionary Ridge. The 1st/4th totaled 198 men
and 109 arms in December, 1863.
The regiment surrendered 23 men in April, 1865. The field
officers were Colonels Wiles L. L. Bowen, Edward Hopkins,
and James P. Hunt; Lieutenant Colonels Edward Badger and
M.W. Smith; and Majors Jacob A. Lash and John T. Lesley.
*Source: U.S.
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HISTORY of THE FOURTH FLORIDA REGIMENT
Written by Judge W. M. Ives, Lake City, Fla.,
Orderly Sergeant of Company K: Article printed in the CONFEDERATE
VETERAN magazine, April, 1895 issue .
My memory goes back to the days of secession---the organization of
companies, the formation of regiments, and the preparations to hold
the Southern territory. The Fourth Florida Regiment was composed of
companies from the east section of the state. One of these, Company
F, of Bradford county, with Company D, of the Second Florida, of
Columbia county, on July 4th, 1861, at Cedar Keys, Fla.,
participated in the recapture of three schooners which lay off that
port in charge of Lieutenant Seldon, of the U. S. Navy. In May,
1862, the regiment was ordered to Mississippi, but the order was
counter - manded at Mobile, Ala., where it performed provost duty
until July. It was then sent to Chattanooga, Tenn., where it was
ordered to remain after Bragg's army went to Kentucky. On October
8th it was ordered to support the Thirty- Second Alabama Infantry
and Fourth Alabama Cavalry at Murfreesboro. It remained at
Murfreesboro until the memorable battle in December and January.
With the Thirty-Second Alabama, Eighteenth and Forty-Fifth
Tennessee, and Fourth Alabama Cavalry, it advanced upon Nashville on
November 5th 1862.
At Murfreesboro, on December 28th, it was placed under General
William Preston, with First and Third Florida, Twentieth Tennessee,
and Sixteenth North Carolina.
In the charge at 3 P.M., December 31st, it passed through the
McCown burnt house, and lay that night and next day in the cedar
thicket. On January 2nd, 1863, it was one of the last to leave the
field, and lost half its members. In May, 1863, it was sent to
Mississippi and was engaged in the battle at Jackson, July 12th.
Reaching Chickamauga, Tenn., September 1st, it fought in the
battle of 19th and 20th under Brigadier Gen. M. A. Stoval. Before
the battle of Missionary Ridge, it was placed in the Florida
Brigade,--First, Thirteenth, Fourth, Sixth and Seventh Regiments.
Being the left regiment, it was flanked in the ditch at the foot of
the ridge. Only 18 of the 177 men men engaged escaped.
At Dalton it was consolidated with the First Florida Cavalry, as
the First and Fourth Florida. Skirmished at Dalton in February and
May; fought at Resacca May 14th, 15th; skirmished at Adairsville
17th, near Carsville on 19th, at Dallas from 26th of May to 1st of
June. It was the left infantry regiment in the charge of May 28th.
Skirmished near Big Shanty and on Pine Mountain; fortified west
side of Kennesaw; skirmished at Baldhill. On June 27th it reached
Maney and Vaughn's Tennessee Brigades as they repulsed the
Fourteenth army corps. Was in the trenches at Cheatham's Bend until
night of July 2nd. Participated in all skirmishes of Bate's
Division, also the battles of July 20th and 22nd and 5th and 6th of
August, on Atlanta line.
It fought at Jonesboro August 31st and September 1st. With the
Twentieth and Thirty-Seventh surrounded and captured the blockhouse
at Mill Creek Gap, October 13th; skirmished at Decatur, Alabama,
26th; at Columbia, Tenn., Nov. 26th and 27th; was the left regiment
at Franklin, 30th; skirmished at block- house near Stewart's creek,
December 4th; and west of railroad on 7th.
Reached Nashville line December 11th; was engaged on the 16th.
Fought under W. B. Bate at Bentonville, N. C., March 19th, 1865, and
surrendered April 26th, from High Point. On April 9th, 1865, it had
been consolidated, with other Florida Regiments, into the First
Florida Consolidated Regiment.
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"This photograph, taken during the United
Confederate Veterans reunion in Marianna on September 27, 1927,
shows the return to Florida of the regimental flag of the 4th
Florida Infantry. The colors were captured by the 72nd Ohio by 1st
Lt. Charles H. McCleary at the Battle of Brentwood Hills near
Nashville, TN on 16 December 1864. Lt. McCleary was awarded
the Medal of Honor for this 'capture'.
The three men in the center of the photograph were Union veterans from
Ohio. The identity of the man on the left is not known, but he
appears to be a Florida Confederate veteran.
The 4th Florida could
only be described as a "fighting" regiment. When formed in 1862, the
regiment included 926 men and 47 officers. When it surrendered in
North Carolina at the end of the war, only 23 were left. At Stones
River, the 4th carried 458 men into battle and in two days of
fighting lost 163 killed and wounded and 31 missing. By the time of
the Battle of Chattanooga, only 172 men were left. After the battle,
there were only 18. The entire rest of the regiment was either
killed, wounded or captured.
During the Atlanta
campaign, the 4th was consolidated with the 1st Florida Cavalry
(dismounted) and the two regiments fought combined during the rest
of the Atlanta and during the Franklin and Nashville Campaign.
During Hood's ill-fated charge against the Union forces at Franklin,
the consolidated 1st and 4th Regiments were severely mauled and the
4th lost its regimental colors.
For many years after
the war, Confederate veterans gathered in Marianna on the
anniversary of the 1864 Battle of Marianna. The 1927 observance was
marked by the return of the colors of the 4th Florida to their
rightful home."
Source:
http://civilwarflorida.blogspot.com/2007/10/return-of-flag-of-4th-florida-infantry.html
by Dale Cox
"UCV veterans at a reunion in Marianna Florida in 1927. The Stars
and Bars flag was returned to the 4th Florida Infantry that the
111th Ohio Volunteer Infantry had captured at the Battle of
Franklin, Tennessee." The group is gathered in front of the First
National Bank and the group is certainly proudly displaying the huge
flag Special Thanks to
Aimee Gilmore and Lunelle Siegel for the research for this
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