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A History of Columbia County, Florida

Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. From Company
C, the Columbia Rifles, 11 were killed in battle, 13 died from disease
and wounds, 1 was taken prisoner, and 5 deserted.11
Columbia County was well represented in the Third Florida
Infantry Regiment. Company I, the Dixie Stars, was commanded
by Captain Jesse B Wood, while Company K, the Columbia and
Suwannee Guards, was commanded by Captain William G. Parker.
Wood served as captain of Company I until May 10, 1862, when he
resigned. He was replaced by Charles H. Ross who was captured at
Nashville in the fall of 1862. The Third Florida Infantry was
organized in July 1861, and mustered into Confederate service
August 10, 1861, at Amelia Island. Captain Henry R. Teasdale, the
regimental quartermaster, was later promoted to major and made
district quartermaster for Florida with his station at Lake City. The
Third Florida adopted the motto “We Yield but in Death.” The
regiment took heavy casualties at the battle of Perrysville in
Kentucky on October 8, 1862. At Murfreesborough, Tennessee, in
early 1863, the Third Florida lost 138 of its force of 531. In
Mississippi in the summer of 1863 when Vicksburg surrendered,
the Third Regiment was afterwards engaged in the siege at
Jackson, Mississippi. Later fighting was in the battle of
Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge. Company K lost 18 men from
battle wounds and disease while Company I lost 19. Adam Witt
entered Company K as a private and was later promoted to second
sergeant. He died on October 9,1862, as a result of wounds incurred
during the battle of Perrysville. Jackson Raulerson was killed at
Gettysburg. Charles Bray won a commendation at the battle of
Chickamauga. Philip Lowe must have had a flamboyant military
career. He entered the regiment as third sergeant of company K
” Fred L. Robertson, compiler, Board of State Institutions, Soldiers of Florida
in the Seminole Indian, Civil, and Spanish-American Wars (Tallahassee, 1903), pp.
77-84; Works Progress Administration, Confederate Muster Rolls Survey, Florida
in the War Between the States, 4 Vols., typewritten copy, Florida Collection, Florida
State University Strozier Library, Vol. I, n.p.n. Hereafter referred to as Con­
federate Muster Rolls.
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