1st Florida Cavalry Regiment

1st Florida Cavalry Regiment
1st Florida Cavalry Regiment
	Battle flag of the combined 1st Florida Cavalry and 4th Florida Infantry regiments (1863).
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; Lt. Col. William Tennent Stockton

The 1st Florida Cavalry Regiment 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.

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