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Camp Officers
A Note From History During the final stages of the war, Florida had become so
depleted of manpower that Governor John Milton, himself a resident of
Jackson County, was forced to order teenagers as young as fifteen to serve
in the “Home Guards.” These units were part of the state militia, the
equivalent of today’s National Guard, and in 1864 authorities raised
thirty-eight companies of them across Florida. In Jackson County alone, five companies were formed. The
best known of these was Captain Jesse Norwood’s Marianna Home Guards, who
called themselves the “Cradle to Grave” company because the members ranged
in age from fifteen to over seventy. Similar companies were also assembled
in Campbellton, Greenwood, at Cowpen Pond in eastern Jackson County and,
near the end of the war, at what is now Kynesville southwest of Marianna. From: "School Boys Go To War" an article by Compatriot Dale Cox.
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