West Confederate Avenue, south of Spangler Woods, Gettysburg, Pa.
| Floridians of Perry's Brigade. Comprised of the 2nd, 5th and 8th
Florida Infantry. fought here with great honor as members of Anderson's
Division of Hill's Corps and participated in the heaviest fighting of
July 2 and 3, 1863. The brigade suffered 445 casualties of the 700 men
present for duty. Like all Floridians who participated in the Civil War, they fought with courage and devotion for the ideals in which they believed by their noble example of bravery and endurance, they enable us to meet with confidence any sacrifice which confronts us as Americans. |