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No. 1 Brigade of the Florida Division of the United Confederate Veterans records, 1861-1865, 1887-1928.
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The Florida Division of the United Confederate Veterans was formed in 1891 as a social, literary, historical, and benevolent organization for Civil War Confederate veterans in Florida. The Division was divided into three brigades made up of local Camps. The organization aided and assisted Confederate veterans who were indigent or in distress.
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This collection consists of records pertaining to the No. 1 Brigade of the Florida Division of the United Confederate Veterans and Camp Ward No. 10 in Pensacola. The records include a record book, 1887-1928, that contains meeting minutes, lists of members and officers, and news clippings. The volume also includes a tipped-in letter, dated October 27, 1861, from Thomas M. Jackson of Company K, First Florida Infantry Regiment.
The collection also includes several photocopied Civil War letters. Samuel House, who served in a Tennessee artillery unit, wrote 11 of the letters, dated 1862-1865, from camps in Columbus, Corinth, and Vicksburg, Mississippi, and from Governors Island, New York, where House was imprisoned. There is one letter from John House, Samuel's brother, written while he was a prisoner of war at Johnson Island, Ohio.
The remainder of the collection consists of 30 letters, dated 1862-1864, from Thomas T. Bigbie, who served in the Thirty-third Alabama Infantry Regiment. Bigbie fought in Tennessee and Georgia until his capture at Peachtree Creek in 1864. Bigbie died on October 18, 1864, in Camp Douglas, Illinois, a prisoner-of-war camp.
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Confederate States of America. Army. --Florida Infantry Regiment, 1st. Confederate States of America. Army. --Alabama Infantry Regiment, 33rd.
Civil War (U.S.) Military prisons. Patriotic societies Florida Veterans Societies, etc
Camp Douglas (Ill.) Columbus (Miss.) Corinth (Miss.) Florida History Civil War, 1861-1865 Governors Island (New York County, N.Y.) Johnson Island Prison United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Vicksburg (Miss.)
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Bigbie, Thomas T., d. 1864
House, John, fl. 1860-1865
House, Samuel, fl. 1860-1865
Jackson, Thomas M., fl. 1860-1865
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