Category: Department of Middle and Eastern Florida, Confederate Army, United States Civil War

Categories: Confederate Army Military Departments, United States Civil War

Department of Middle and Eastern Florida was established August 21, 1861. Embraced Middle and Eastern Florida. Extended October 26, 1861, west to Choctawhatchee River. Under the Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida April 7, 1862. Re-established April 9, 1862. Constituted a district to form a part of General Beauregard’s command, October 7, 1862. Divided into two districts November 4, 1862, to be known as Districts of East and Middle Florida, and merged into Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.

Commanded by: Brigadier General John B Grayson, August 21, 1861; relieved October 10, 1861. Brigadier General E K Smith, assigned October 10, 1861; countermanded October 22, 1861. Brigadier General James H Trapier, assigned October 22, 1861; reassigned March 14, 1862; relieved by order March 19, 1862. Colonel W C Dilworth, assigned temporarily March 19, 1862; assumed April 1, 1862. Brigadier General Joseph Finegan, assigned April 8, 1862; assumed April 18, 1862.

See:

• The Confederate Soldier in the Civil War, 1861-1865, Benjamin La Bree, 1897, page 336.

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Joseph Finegan 17 Nov 1814 Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland - 29 Oct 1885

John Grayson 18 Oct 1806 Cabell's Dale House, Fayette County, Kentucky - 21 Oct 1861

Edmund Smith 16 May 1824 St. Augustine, St. Johns, Florida, United States - 28 Mar 1893

James Trapier 24 Nov 1815 Georgetown, South Carolina, United States - 21 Dec 1865

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