Captain Council A. Bryan, CSA (Florida State Archives)

• Volunteer Soldier, Florida, 1849. He fought in the Seminole War.

• Politician (local level), Tallahassee, Leon County, FL

• His father's name was Simon and his mother's name was Thirza Allen.

Civil War Florida Soldier ID: 465 | Edit this Soldier | Revision History
Created by: CivilWarFlorida Administrator           on February 25th, 2004 9:24:01 PM EST

Letter of  Council Allen Bryan to Cornelia Archer Screven Bryan on June 3, 1864
M87-035, Council A. Bryan Papers, FF7 – Correspondence 1864, Florida State Archives.

Gaines Farm June 3 1864 Brigade Hospital My dear Wife This morning I received your letter of 23rd May written on the eve of your departure for So. Ca. I have written to you regularly and Bro Jon wrote home from Danville as soon as he heard of my safety. I have written to Ham and mailed some letters to you directed to Gillisonville. For the last four days I have been on the sick list with dysentery and exhaustion but I am feeling better and hope to be able to rejoin my command in a day or two. Today has been a very bloody one to the yankees. A day of continual fighting. Their was heavy...

Letter of  David Lang to John B. Bachelder on October 16, 1893            (1 comment)
M84-028, David Lang Letterbooks, Vol. II, pp. 87-91, Florida State Archives

Oct.16th.1893. Col. John B. Bachelder, Gettysburg Battlefield Commission. Dear Sir: - I regret very much that circumstances have been such as to prevent an earlier reply to yours if the 13th. ult. I did not wish to make positive statements as to the positions of the Florida Brigade at Gettysburg, until I had conferred with the regimental commanders as to the connections on the flanks of the Brigade, and this has taken time to obtain their recollections of the situation. I can now state positively that the Florida Brigade occupied on the 2nd. day of July 1863, the line of the eastern edge...

Letter of  David Lang to E. A. Carmen (Late 1800s -- Early 1900s)            (2 comments)
M84-028, Davd Lang Letterbooks Vol. II, pp. 328-329, Florida State Archives

Hon. E.A. Carman, War Records Office, Washington, D.C. Dear Sir: In reply to yours of 11th, inst. inquiring the names of the commanding officers 8th. Fla. Regt. in the battle of Sharpsburg Md., Sept. 17 / 62, I have to say that the regiment went into the battle in command of Lt. Col. Coppen, formerly of the 1st B(***)n Louisania Zouves, by assignment of Ge. Roger Pryor just preceding the battle, because of the absence and sickness of Col. Richard B. Floyd, Lt. Col. John M. Pons. Major W.I. Turner, having resigned. Col. Coppen’s given name has escaped my memory, but Gen. Pryor on whose...

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