Table of Contents: 1st Florida Special Cavalry Battalion, March 1864-June 1865
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Captain Francis Asbury Hendry's Company
Captain John T. Lesley's Company
Battalion Staff Officers
Captain Leroy G. Lesley's Company
Captain Edward J. Lutterloh's Company
Captain Samuel Agnew's Company
Captain James W. Faulkner's Company
Captain John C. Wilcox's Company
Captain John Parsons' Company
BATTALION ROSTER (Revised 10-16-2001)
Captain William B. Watson's Company
MISCELLANEOUS INFO
Ty Starkey's web-site on Munnerlyn's Battalion with info on Lutterloh's Company
Biographical info on Captain John Thomas Lesley (Courtesy of SCV Camp 1282)
Miscellaneous Privates
Map showing the Cattle Battalion's area of operations
Map showing the Fort Meade area 1850s to 1860s
Sketch and dimensional description of the Union outpost at Fort Myers
Major P.W. White's October 1863 circular posted to arouse patriotism in Florida
"Freemasonry, Treason, and the Florida Cow Cavalry"
Spessard Stone's web-site on Florida history and genealogy (Civil War and Reconstruction)
Jacob Summerlin's post-war Application for Pardon
Munnerlyn's Battalion Photo Gallery
OTHER MISCELLANEOUS INFO
Richard James Bevan's parole application, May 15, 1865
"How the Old Cannon was Broken," Fort Meade Leader, Feb. 10, 1916
Letter from Francis B. Hagan to Jefferson Bell, Secretary, Fla. Dept. of Pensions, Jan. 7, 1908, regarding Confederate Pension of David E. Waldron
Myrtle Hilliard Crow Interview with Sam Summerlin, son of Jacob Summerlin
The Cattle Battalion in Action: fending off a Yankee attack on Confederate cattle
Provided courtesy of Joe A. Akerman, Jr., from his book
Florida Cowman, A History of Florida Cattle Raising (Kissimmee, FL, 1976).
Thomas Hopkins Wilder's pension application
"The Wedding at the Parker House [April 1865]," Putnam's Magazine, August, 1868
The Confederate Draft
Biography of Perry Green Wall who was the father of W. W. Wall, the captain who
succeeded L. G. Lesley of Co. C
"James McKay, Sr.: Confederate Hero, Union Agent, or Neither?"
Biography on Lydia Oregon Hendry Blount (sister of Capt. F.A. Hendry)
Tampa Sunday Tribune, Sept. 26, 1948
Cow Cavalrymen go to church, minutes from Baptist Church of Christ
at Peas Creek, April 1864 - December 1865
Rebuttal of Dr. Irvin D. Solomon's article
MUNNERLYN'S FAVORITES
Moses E. Barber's application for Presidential pardon, 1865
Daniel Sloan's application for Presidential pardon, 1865
The Official Records: Confederate and Union Correspondence
OTHER RESEARCH LINKS
The Civil War in Florida
Confederate Regimental History Links
Florida Cracker Cattle
Search Florida CSA Pension Database
Hillsborough County Calls for Secession in 1860
Florida Brigade
an interactive archive of information about the 2nd, 5th, and 8th Florida Infantry Regiments
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