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History of Military Units in Columbia County, FL (1970) Robert Gary Shields
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Companies D & E
4th Florida Regiment

Early in the spring of 1861 ten more companies of volunteers were

organized as the 4th Florida Regiment of Infanty and mustered into
service July 1, 1861, with Edward Hopkins of Jacksonville as Colonel

and M. Whitsmith of Lake City as’ Lt.-Col. The companies were:

Company County Name Captain
A Gadsden Charles A. Gee
B Franklin Beauregard Rifles Adam W. Hunter
C Madison William H. Dial
D Columbia William A. Shefield
E Columbia &
LaFayette Thomas A. McGhee
F Bradford James P. Hunt
G Marion & Levy William Fletcher
H Washington & Washington County
Liberty Invincibles W. F. Lane
I Jackson Dixie Boys Joseph B. Barnes
K Hillsborough John T. Leslie

Upon the completion of its organization the Regiment was assigned to

duty mainly on the Gulf coast, Companies D, E, & K being stationed at
Tampa Bay; E at Cedar Keys; B, E, and I at St. Marks; Companies H
and G at Fernandina until the evacuation of that place March, 1862,
when they were ordered to Camp Langford near Jacksonville, Details from

F & C , of the 2nd Florida under command of Capt. W. B. Moore, on July 4,
1861, took the steamer Madison and captured three schooners loaded with

railroad irons, and Major Bowens in command of Tampa captured two sloops
with their crews.

The 4th Regiment became a pai?t of Bragg's Army, being assigned to
Gen. Forrest's command; and in this command were engaged at Nashville.

On its return to Murfreesborough the Regiment went into camp and remained
until late in December, 1862. On the morning of December 28, 1862, it
was ordered to Lebanon Pike,*where it engaged the enemy. On the afternoon

of Dec. 28, the 1st, 3rd. and 4th Florida were brigaded under Gen. Wm.
Preston. This brigade and Palmer's were the last of Gen. Breckenridge's

command transferred to the west side of Stone River Dec. 31, and made the
final and unsuccessful assualt on the Federal center. The 1st and 3rd
Florida, under Col Wm. Miller, gained the cedar brake so prominent in that

action; and the 4th, under Col Bowen, advanced as far but with much
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