1st Florida Cavalry Regiment

1st Florida Cavalry
Active	April 5, 1861 - February 1862
Country	Confederate States of America
Allegiance	Florida
Branch	Confederate States Army
Type	Army Corps
Role	infantry tactics trench warfare
Part of	Army of Tennessee
Engagements	American Civil War Siege of Knoxville (September—December 1863) Kentucky Campaign Battle of Chickamauga Battle of Chattanooga Atlanta Campaign Franklin-Nashville Campaign (Tennessee Campaign) Second Battle of Franklin (Tennessee Campaign) Battle of Nashville of John Bell Hood (Tennessee Campaign) Carolinas Campaign
Commanders
Notable commanders	Col. William G. M. Davis Lt. Col. George Troup Maxwell

Private Walter Miles Parker of the 1st Florida Cavalry

The 1st Florida Cavalry was a Confederate army unit during the U.S. Civil War, originally organized in July 1861 at Tallahassee. Members of the regiment came primarily from Alachua, Clay, Columbia, Duval, Leon, Levy, Nassau and Suwannee counties. It left for the western theater in 1862.

Assignments

• Department of West Florida, April - October 1861
• Department of Alabama and West Florida, October 1861
• Army of Pensacola, Department of Alabama and West Florida, October 1861 - February 1862

Officers of the 1st Florida Cavalry Regiment
Rank	Name
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Colonel	William G. M. Davis
Lt. Colonel	George Troup Maxwell
Major	William T. Stockton

Battles

• Siege of Knoxville, September—December 1863
• Kentucky Campaign
• Battle of Chickamauga
• Battle of Chattanooga
• Atlanta Campaign
• Tennessee Campaigns (Franklin-Nashville Campaign, Second Battle of Franklin, and Battle of Nashville) of John Bell Hood
• Carolinas Campaign

The 1st Florida Cavalry Regiment surrendered in North Carolina in April 1865.