Post by IRONCLAD on Mar 10, 2004 21:11:37 GMT -5
2d Florida
SUFFERED HORRIBLY
On June 13, 1861 , the 2d Infantry Regiment of Florida
Volunteers, 927 men from north and central Florida, was mustered into Confederate service for 12 months. With George T. Ward, a congressman , elected colonel , the men boarded a train bound for Virginia on the 15th. They arrived in Richmond on July 21, too late to participate in the 1st. Battle of Manassas. After two months in a camp of instruction , the 2d Florida was sent to the Virginia peninsula, where it skirmished with Union sharpshooters.
In may 1862 the regiment was heavily engaged in the Battle of Williamsburg , where Colonel Ward and a number of the men were killed. Reorganized as a three-year regiment , the 2d Florida elected Capt. E.A. Perry to be its new colonel. At the Battle of Seven Pines the unit was in the thick of the heaviest fighting and suffered horribly. At the end of June 1, the last day of the battle, only 237 men were left in the regiment, and 10 of the 11 company commanders had been killed or wounded. A 12th. company of 100 men was added to the regiment before the beginning of the Seven Days’ campaign, but at the end of the campaign, the 2d Florida had suffered another 137 casualties.
After participating in the Battles of Sharpsburg and Chancellor-sville, the 2d Florida joined the great invasion of Pennsylvania in the summer of 1863. Involved in heavy fighting on the second and third days of the Battle of Gettysburg , the 2d Florida’s colors were captured during Pickett’s Charge. The unit ended the battle with only 65 men left in the ranks. In January 1864 the regiment , increased to 115 men with the return of recovered wounded, unanimously voted to reenlist for the war. Again heavily engaged in the spring 1864 campaign that included the Battles of the Wilder-ness, Spotsylvania , and Cold Harbor , the 2d Florida contained only 45 men by the end of June. It continued to exist as a regiment , however for the rest of the war. When the end came at Appomattox , the regiment surrendered 59 men and nine officers.
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IRONCLAD
SUFFERED HORRIBLY
On June 13, 1861 , the 2d Infantry Regiment of Florida
Volunteers, 927 men from north and central Florida, was mustered into Confederate service for 12 months. With George T. Ward, a congressman , elected colonel , the men boarded a train bound for Virginia on the 15th. They arrived in Richmond on July 21, too late to participate in the 1st. Battle of Manassas. After two months in a camp of instruction , the 2d Florida was sent to the Virginia peninsula, where it skirmished with Union sharpshooters.
In may 1862 the regiment was heavily engaged in the Battle of Williamsburg , where Colonel Ward and a number of the men were killed. Reorganized as a three-year regiment , the 2d Florida elected Capt. E.A. Perry to be its new colonel. At the Battle of Seven Pines the unit was in the thick of the heaviest fighting and suffered horribly. At the end of June 1, the last day of the battle, only 237 men were left in the regiment, and 10 of the 11 company commanders had been killed or wounded. A 12th. company of 100 men was added to the regiment before the beginning of the Seven Days’ campaign, but at the end of the campaign, the 2d Florida had suffered another 137 casualties.
After participating in the Battles of Sharpsburg and Chancellor-sville, the 2d Florida joined the great invasion of Pennsylvania in the summer of 1863. Involved in heavy fighting on the second and third days of the Battle of Gettysburg , the 2d Florida’s colors were captured during Pickett’s Charge. The unit ended the battle with only 65 men left in the ranks. In January 1864 the regiment , increased to 115 men with the return of recovered wounded, unanimously voted to reenlist for the war. Again heavily engaged in the spring 1864 campaign that included the Battles of the Wilder-ness, Spotsylvania , and Cold Harbor , the 2d Florida contained only 45 men by the end of June. It continued to exist as a regiment , however for the rest of the war. When the end came at Appomattox , the regiment surrendered 59 men and nine officers.
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IRONCLAD