7th Florida Infantry Regiment

The 7th Florida Infantry Regiment was a Civil War regiment from Florida organized at Gainesville, in April, 1862. Its companies were recruited in the counties of Bradford, Hillsborough, Alachua, Manatee, and Marion.

7th Florida Infantry Regiment
Regimental colors (from ca. March or April 1864 to April 1865)
Active	April 1862 - 1865
Allegiance	Confederate Florida Confederate States of America
Branch	Confederate States Army
Role	Infantry

Organization and Service History

During the war it served in the Florida Brigade of the Army of Tennessee. The nucleus of Company K of the regiment was made up of men who served as a militia Coast Guard company before the war. One member of the unit described the diverse nature of the company by saying "it is composed of Yankees, Crackers, Conchs, Englishmen, Spaniards, Germans, Frenchmen, Italians, Poles, Irishmen, Swedes, Chinese, Portuguese, Brazilians...also Scotsmen, Welshmen, and some Half Indians."^[1]

Former Governor of Florida, Madison S. Perry served as colonel of the regiment until April 1863.^[2][3]

The 7th took an active part in the arduous campaigns of the army from Chickamauga to Nashville, then fought its last battle at Bentonville.^[4]

Companies

Company	County	Nickname	Commander
A	Alachua		Capt. Roland Thomas (resigned, replaced by Henry F York)
B	Hillsborough	South Florida Rifles	Capt. James Gettis
C	Alachua	Alachua Rangers[5]	Capt. Philip B. H. Dudley
D	Alachua	Alachua Rebels[6]	Capt. Simeon VanLandingham
E	Hillsborough	South Florida Bulldogs[7]	Capt. Nathan S. Blount
F			Capt. William W. Sloan
G	Marion		Capt. S. D. McConnell
H	Marion	Marion Hornets[8]	Capt. Wade H. Eichelberger
I			Capt. A. S. Moseley
K	Hillsborough	Key West Avengers[a]	Capt. R. B. Smith

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See also

• List of Florida Confederate Civil War units

Notes

1. Despite being raised from Hillsborough County, Company K was known as the Key West Avengers because many of the men in the unit were mariners and fisherman from Key West.^[9]