A Small but Spartan Band: The Florida Brigade in Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia

A unit that saw significant action in many of the engagements of the Civil Wars eastern theater Until this work no comprehensive study of the Florida units that served in Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia (ANV) had been attempted and problems attend the few studies of particular Florida units that have appeared. Based on more than two decades of research Waters and Edmonds have produced a study that covers all units from Florida in the ANV and does so in an objective and reliable fashion. Drawn from what was then a turbulent and thinly settled frontier region the Florida troops serving in the Confederacy were never numerous but they had the good or bad luck of finding themselves at crucial points in several significant battles such as Gettysburg where their conduct continues to be a source of contention. Additionally the study of these units and their service permits an examination of important t