Civil War - Company H 4th Florida Infantry

History

The company was organized on Sept. 13, 1861, and the surviving members of the unit were mustered out of service on April 26,1865.

Commanders

Some of the commanders of Company H - 4th Florida Infantry ("Washington Invincibles") were

• George W. Cook who lost an arm at Murfreesborough, TN, and wounded again at Franklin, was later promoted to second lieutenant and then elected captain.
• Captain William F. Lane, the company's first commander, died at Lake City.
• Bernard Laspeyre was then promoted to captain, but died of disease.
• Joseph Summerlin was first lieutenant and was wounded at Murfreesborough and died fourteen days later.
• Thomas J. Russ then became first lieutenant.
• Daniel D. McLean and Joseph B. Canell were the original second lieutenants. McLean died in service and Canell resigned in 1863.
• Lafayette Irvin and Wilson W. Raley were third lieutenants.

Roster

Robert S. Abbott
Henry Anderson
Lewis Anderson
Clayton Beasley
J. E. F. Bond
Mark A. Bower (or Bowen?)
Jeremiah Burke
J. W. Carmichael
Felix K. Carter
R. F. Carter
S. Chance
James M. D. Chesnut
J. Curlee
William Curlee
James J. Danly
Elbert Davis
Henry J. Dortch
Albert M.Dukes
Sharod Easters
David Evans
Lambert Evans
J. Ferguson
Randal Fulford
Abner G. Griffin
Hiram W. J. Hagans

James L. Hagans
Isam H. Hogan
Henry J. Hall
James Harris
Allen Harvey
E. Hays
Ephraim L. Hewitt
Robert W. Hewitt
William E. C. Hewitt
Stephen Howard
William W. Howell
Hale B. Hudson
James T. Hudson
James S. Irvin
William H. H. Johns
S. C. Johnson
Theophelus Kent
Edward Laryford
James S. Lanier
Lewis H. Lanier
Thomas B. Lewis
John D. McCormick
Washington J. McKeithen
G. W. Maddox
Duncan M. Martin

David Mathews
D. W. Hayhn
Daniel V. Melvin
Grivin Melvin
David A. Merritt
James Miller
John H. Miller
Levi N. Miller
Lewis H. Miller
Isreal R. Milton
Hiram Mills
William G. Moody
M. Morris
D. Norris
Calvin F. Ousborn
William D. Owens
David Williams Palmer
John Parker
Peter F. Parker
William N. Parker
Stephen G. Pierce
Johnson Pippin
Solomon Pippin
W. H. F. Potter
Alfred Posey

Richard V. Provest
James E. Railey
John H. Roberts
James L. Russ
John J. Russ
John R. Russ
William E. Singleton
Joel Skipper
Reddrick W. Skipper
Alexander Stewart
J. T. Tanner
Andrew J. Taylor
David Taylor
F. Taylor
James Taylor
Johnathan Taylor
Robert H. J. Taylor
Washington Taylor (or Tabor?)
J. G. White
John M. White
S. N. Whittle
Hiram Willis
Joseph W. Wood

Stephen G. Pierce

Stephen Green Pierce / Pearce served with the 4th Florida Infantry, Company H ("The Washington County Invincibles") of the Confederate States of America (CSA). The company was organized on September 13, 1861. Included in the company roster was Stephen G. Pierce.

He and several other Home Guardsmen were captured northeast of Vernon by a Federal unit, while attempting to erect a road construction. Private Stephen Pierce, who had joined the group while at home on-leave from the 4th Florida Infantry, engaged his captors in some verbal jousting after the Home Guardsmen had surrendered. Some of the group's captors, after receiving instructions from their commander, escorted Pierce beyond a nearby gallberry patch and shot him, leaving his body where it fell. His executioners then rejoined their unit for the march into Vernon, then a village of perhaps 150 people.

Stephen G. Pierce, of Company H, 4th Florida Infantry, home on leave during Asboth's raid on Marianna, was among the home guardsmen captured by the Federals as they retreated through the Vernon area. He was killed by his captors, possibly for vocalizing his opinion of them, and was buried in Hard Labor Creek Cemetery in Washington County, FL.

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Contributed by Elizabeth Walters

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