The 7th Florida Infantry Regiment was a

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regiment from

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organized at Gainesville, in April, 1862. Its companies were recruited in the counties of Bradford, Hillsborough, Alachua, Manatee, and Marion.

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During the war it served in the

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. 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." Former Governor of Florida,

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served as colonel of the regiment until April 1863. The 7th took an active part in the arduous campaigns of the army from Chickamauga to

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, then fought its last battle at Bentonville.

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* * {{cite book , last=Pickard , first=Ben , author2=Sally Morrison , title=Dudley Farm : A History of Florida Farm Life , date=2003 , publisher=Alachua Press , location=Gainesville, Florida , oclc=58458699 , url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58458699 Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from Florida

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