Confederate Regiment

8th Florida Infantry

Disbanded/Mustered out: Appomattox Courthouse, VA 4/9/1865

Commanding Officers on the Sharpsburg Campaign:
  LCol. George A. Coppens
  Capt. Robert A. Waller
  Capt. William Baya

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of Northern Virginia
  Corps - Longstreet's Command
  Division - Anderson's Division
  Brigade - Pryor's Brigade

On the Sharpsburg Campaign

"... the regiment went into the battle in command of Lt. Col. Coppen, formerly of the 1st Battalion Louisania Zouves, by assignment of Gen. Roger Pryor just preceding the battle, because of the absence and sickness of Col. Richard B. Floyd, Lt. Col. John M. Pons. Major W.I. Turner, having resigned ..."

"Col. Coppen was killed almost immediately after getting fire, in the cornfield below the stone barn near bloody lane. Capt. Richard A. Waller [sic] then assumed command as senior Capt. and was also killed with the colors of the regiment draped over his shoulders, almost immediately afterward, the flagstaff having been shot in two, & the color bearer and color guard beig [sic] all either killed or wounded".

The next (?) in (or) to (****rank?), the writer, had been previously wounded, between the times of the killings of Col. Coppen & Capt. Waller and Capt. Wm. Baya, next in rank, commanded the regiment until the (****) of the engagement, and until the return of Lt. Col. Pons. Col. Floyd having resigned because of extreme ill health."1

Map Showing this Unit

Detail Map #9: Richardson's Division Attacks the Sunken Road (10-11 am)

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #386: Anderson's Division, Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 1 PM
Tablet #344: Anderson's Division, Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 5 PM

We have 60 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Pvt	King, Elisha	POW 09/00
B	Pvt	Bradshaw, John M.	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Connell, Thomas F.	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Gandy, Blackshear	AWOL 09/17
B	Sgt	Ingram, H. H.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Ingram, John M.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Jarvis, George S.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	McConnell, T. F.	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Simpson, J. J.	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Spingola, John	WIA 09/17
B	Capt	Waller, Robert Aurelius	KIA 09/17
B	Sgt	Wescott, Leigh Reed	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Wright, Bird B.	MWIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Griffin, Bryant Calvin	KIA 09/17
C	Corp	Lane, Levin A.	WIA 09/17
C	Capt	Lang, David	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	McNeil, James	MWIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Wood, Henry M.	WIA 09/17
D	Capt	Baya, William Peter
D	Pvt	Hanson, John M.	POW 09/17
E	Lt	Armistead, Anthony	KIA 09/17
E	Sgt	Britton, Francis G.	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Brown, Edward G.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Croom, William F.	POW 09/00
E	Pvt	Daniel, William J.	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Knowles, Henry S.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	McNealy, George Washington	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Powell, Quinney D.	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Vickery, William C.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	DeCottes, Edward A.	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Hazelman, Theodore Laurent	POW 09/00
F	Pvt	Tompkins, John W.	POW 09/00
G	Pvt	Long, Reuben	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Robinson, Charles A.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Sowell, Thomas J.	POW 09/17
H	Pvt	Byrd, Evander	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	White, Stephen R.	MWIA 09/17
I	Corp	Bennett, Elias R.	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Davis, George	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Davis, John G.	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	French, Edwin	WIA 09/17
I	Corp	Harris, Richard Thomas	MWIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Murray, Archibald	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Rhoden, Levi J.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Roberts, Andrew J.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Roberts, Conner	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Roberts, Isaiah	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Roberts, Josiah	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Stanley, Henderson S.	WIA 09/17
I	Sgt	Strickland, Jonathan	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Sweat, Alfred J.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Tumblin, Samuel W.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	West, Mangum B.	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Lawrence, Francis	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Rawles, George	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Smith, Baxter M.	MWIA 09/17
K	Corp	Tyner, W.	WIA 09/17
K	Lt	Warren, Francis H.	WIA 09/17
F&S	LCol	Coppens, Georges Augustus Gaston De	KIA 09/17
F&S	Col	Floyd, Richard Ferdinand

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Notes

1 From letter, former Capt (later Colonel) David Lang, 8th Florida, to E. A. Carman, Antietam Battlefield Commission, probably c. 1896. Transcribed by Mr. Studnicki.
Studnicki, Jim, Civil War Florida, Published c. 2001, first accessed 15 June 2005, <http://www.civilwarflorida.com/>, Source page: /site/sources/letters/show_letter.php?letterREF=2 [AotW citation 161]

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