"The Sandpipers"
OFFICERS
Captain John Thomas Lesley
1st Lt. William Benton Henderson (served as interim captain after Lesley was wounded, July 1864)
1st Lt. Daniel Sloan
2nd Lt. William Platt
2nd Lt. Milton Johnson
2nd Lt. Thomas William Wilder
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS
1st Sgt. A.P. Hampton
2nd Sgt. Enoch E. Mizell
3rd Sgt. S.L. Hancock
4th Sgt. Edward Gross Wilder
Surgeon W.A. Lively
PRIVATES
Alderman, Benjamin
Alderman, Matthew
Alderman, Mitchell
Alderman, Timothy
Alderman, William
Baker, A.A.
Blocker, Stephen W.
Brandon, Franklin Davis
Brandon, Jerrett Wesley
Brandon, John
Brown, John F.
Brown, William C.
Brownam, Joseph
Bryant, John Wesley
Buffom, A.J.
Campbell, Emory
Campbell, John
Casey, Joseph, Sr.
Clarke, Edward A.
Clarke, Stephen Right
Collins, Daniel Jackson
Collins, Enoch E., Jr.
Collins, Hardy H.
Collins, John
Collins, William
Costine, John W.
Crichton, John William
Davis, Irvin
Douglas, Allen D.
Douglas, Riley
Duffield, Thomas
Ferrell, David
Fletcher, Robert
Franklin, George
Franklin, William King
Frier, William
Futch, James
Futch, W.
Gaskins, Harmon
Gaskins, Henry
Giles, Enoch E.
Gillett, David W.
Gillett, Daniel K.
Gillett, William H.
Glazier, Ezekiel
Gomez, John
Hagne, Rubin
Hall, J.
Ham, William J.
Hamilton, George
Hancock, Daniel Levy
Hancock, J.L.
Hancock, James Thomas
Hancock, Shad
Harris, John
Hawkins, John Wesley
Hickey, Dennis O.
Hollingsworth, John Henry.
Hollingsworth, Stephen Thomas
Hollingsworth, Timothy
Hollingsworth, William Right
Hopkins, A.J.
Hopkins, Shad
Hopson, Allen J.
Howell, Joseph W.
Howell, Thomas
Hughes, William
Jackson, Thomas B.
Jamerson, Daniel W.
Johnson, Benjamin
Johnson, Enoch
Johnson, R. W.
Jones, J.D.
Jones, Mitchell
Jones, Redding B.
Jordan, Henry
Keen, Britton
Keen, George F.
Keen, J.L
Lanier, H.M.
Lanier, J.S.
Lanier, James
Lanier, James, Jr.
Lanier, James H.
Lanier, John
Lanier, Robert H.
Lee, William.
Mathis, Frank
Mathis, Henry
Mathis, William
McKay, John A.
McClelland, J.L.
McMullen, Bethel, Dr.
Miley, James
Miley, Martin M.
Miley, W.J.
Miranda, Abel
Moody, Benjamin
Moody, James
Moody, William
Mooney, John
Moore, T.D.
Nettles, Crete
Nettles, Isaac
Patton, J.S.
Pent, John
Platt, Berrien “Berry”
Platt, Peter
Pollock, John
Prine, Henry A.
Prine, J.E.
Raulerson, John R.
Raulerson, Noel Rabun, Sr.
Raulerson, William Henry
Rawls, William
Riggs, Joshua
Robertson, Carroll E.H.
Robertson, Jackson
Robertson, James Russell
Robertson, William Alonzo
Robles, Joshua
Robles, Joseph Paul
Robles, John Godoff
Sermons, William
Shannon, E.
Sheppard, W.H.
Silcox, David
Simmons, C.G.
Simmons, Marshall V.
Sistrunk, Henry
Sloan, Alford
Sloan, Elbert
Sloan, Orville
Sloan, Owen
Sparkman, E.B.
Spencer, Thomas K.
Starling, William Henry
Summerall, Elhanan
Summerall, Henry
Summerall, Riley
Summerall, Robert
Sylvester, John
Sylvester, Robert H.
Symms, J.
Taylor, John S., Jr.
Terrell, David
Thomas, James
Thomas, John
Thomas, L.R
Turner, Arthur Campbell
Turner, Charles A.
Tyne, Benjamin
Watson, Solomon
Weissbroad, Herman
Wells, George W.
Wells, John W.
Wells, Richard M.
Whidden, James L.
Wiggins, William
Wilder, Hopkins M.
Wilder, Thomas Hopkins
Wilson, Pleasant
Wilson, Reuben M.
Wordehoff, Antoine
Young, F.
Source: Hartman, David W., comp.,and David Coles, assoc. comp., Biographical Rosters of Florida’s Confederate and Union Soldiers 1861-1865, 6 vols. (Wilmington, NC, 1995), II, 694, V, 2019-2034; Soldiers of Florida in the Seminole Indian, Civil and Spanish-American Wars (1903), 315; Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Florida, M-251, roll 5, "First Battalion, Special Cavalry," NA; "Petition of Edward A. Clarke," July 8, 1865, Case Files of Applications from Former Confederates for Presidential Pardons, 1865-67, record group 94, M-1003, roll 15, NA; Theodore Lesley, "The Sunny South Guards was Tampa's Elite Military Unit at Outbreak of the Civil War," Tampa Tribune, Dec. 6, 1959. This article includes a muster roll from the Lesley family of "The Sandpipers," Capt. John T. Lesley's Co. B of Munnerlyn's Battalion. Theodore Lesley wrote: "Due to the age of the paper and faded ink there are no doubt mistakes made in copying the above names." The same roll appeared as "Company B, First Battalion Florida Special Cavalry, C.S.A.," in South Florida Pioneers 14 (October 1977) 17-18; Ernest L. Robinson, History of Hillsborough County Florida (Tampa, FL, 1928), 271; Special Order #125, Oct. 6, 1864.