Jacksonville Light Infantry

[4][5] Among the unit's ranks, according to one historian, were many of the town's wealthiest and most successful businessmen as well as the sons of some of the most prominent families in Jacksonville.

[10] Even before the official outbreak of the Spanish American War, Floridians were enthusiastic and started to recruit, drill, and parade, including members of the Jacksonville Light Infantry.

It was in Huntsville where the Jacksonville Light Infantry company suffered their only casualty, a man named Frank E. Willard.

[12] Throughout the spring and summer of 1898, the men of the First Florida Volunteer Infantry complained about the state of their lodgings as well as the fact that they weren't being deployed to Cuba to fight.

"[15][16] In June 2020, a statue honoring the unit was removed from James Weldon Johnson Park in downtown Jacksonville amid the George Floyd protests.

Photograph of the Jacksonville Light Infantry circa 1890s. Courtesy of the Jacksonville Historical Society
Company A, First Separate Battalion, Florida State Troops (Jacksonville Light Infantry) - Muster Roll, 1888