1st Florida Infantry Regiment

1st Florida Infantry Regiment
1st (McDonell's) Battalion, Florida Infantry
1st and 3rd Consolidated Florida Infantry Regiment
Flag of the 1st Florida Infantry
Active1st Florida Infantry Regiment
(May 5, 1861 – May 1862)
1st (McDonell's) Florida Infantry Battalion
(May 1862 – August 1862)
1st Florida Infantry Regiment
(August 1862 – December 1862)
1st and 3rd Consolidated Florida Infantry Regiment
(December 1862 – April 9, 1865)
1st Florida Infantry Regiment
(April 9, 1865 – April 26, 1865)
CountryConfederate States of America
AllegianceConfederate Florida
Confederate States of America
BranchConfederate States Army
TypeRegiment / Battalion
RoleInfantry
Part ofArmy of Tennessee
Army of Mississippi
Army of Pensacola
Equipment.69 Springfield Model 1842
EngagementsAmerican Civil War
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Col. James Patton Anderson
Maj. Thaddeus A. McDonell
Col. William Miller
Col. William S. Dilworth
Lt. Col. Elisha Mashburn

The 1st Florida Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised by the Confederate state of Florida during the American Civil War. Raised for 12 months of service its remaining veterans served in the 1st (McDonell's) Battalion, Florida Infantry from April 1862 on. In August the depleted battalion was consolidated with the 3rd (Miller's) Battalion into the reorganized 1st Florida Infantry Regiment again. In December 1862 it merged with the 3rd Florida Infantry Regiment and received the form it kept till the war's end as the 1st and 3rd Consolidated Florida Infantry Regiment. Fighting as part of the Army of Tennessee in the Western Theater of the American Civil War it was surrendered on April 26, 1865.