Col. Emmett MacDonald Camp 
Brad Bembry

Ancestor: Great Great Grandfather,Thomas N. Bembry
Born: Abt 1831
Died: Unknown
Buried: Unknown
Rank: Private
Units: Co. F, 5th Florida Regiment Infantry
Battles engaged: Wounded at Fredricksburg (possibly the only one injured ***see below)

5th Regiment, Florida Infantry

5th Infantry Regiment completed its organization at Tallahassee, Florida, during the spring of 1862. Companies that made up the unit were from the counties of Santa Rosa, Baker, Polk, Calhoun, Okaloosa, Wakulla, Madison, and Liberty. Ordered to Virginia with over 1,000 men it served in General Pryor's, E.A. Perry's, and Finegan's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. The regiment fought with the army from Second Manassas to Cold Harbor, then was active in the Petersburg trenches south of the James River and the Appomattox Campaign. Only 1 man was wounded at Fredericksburg , but the unit lost 6 killed and 22 wounded at Chancellorsville and thirty-five percent of the 321 at Gettysburg . It surrendered with 6 officers and 47 men. The field officers were Colonels John C. Hately and Thomas B. Lamar, and Major Benjamin F. Davis.

10th Regiment, Florida Infantry

10th Infantry Regiment was assembled in June, 1864. It was formed by consolidating six companies of the 1st and four of the 2nd Florida Infantry Battalions. Some of the men were from Alachua and Putnam counties. Attached to General Finegan's Brigade, the regiment was active at Cold Harbor, then participated in the long Petersburg siege south of the James River and in the Appomattox Campaign. It surrendered with the Army of Northern Virginia with 18 officers and 154 men. Its commanders were Colonel Charles F. Hopkins, Lieutenant Colonel William W. Scott, and Major John Westcott.

Ancestor: Great Great Great Uncle Henry L. Bembry
Born: Unkown
Died: Unknown
Buried: Unknown
Rank: Private
Units: 5th Florida Regiment Infantry
Battles engaged: Unknown

5th Regiment, Florida Infantry

5th Infantry Regiment completed its organization at Tallahassee, Florida, during the spring of 1862. Companies that made up the unit were from the counties of Santa Rosa, Baker, Polk, Calhoun, Okaloosa, Wakulla, Madison, and Liberty. Ordered to Virginia with over 1,000 men it served in General Pryor's, E.A. Perry's, and Finegan's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. The regiment fought with the army from Second Manassas to Cold Harbor, then was active in the Petersburg trenches south of the James River and the Appomattox Campaign. Only 1 man was wounded at Fredericksburg , but the unit lost 6 killed and 22 wounded at Chancellorsville and thirty-five percent of the 321 at Gettysburg . It surrendered with 6 officers and 47 men. The field officers were Colonels John C. Hately and Thomas B. Lamar, and Major Benjamin F. Davis.

Ancestor: 4th Cousin Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Secretary of State, CSA
Born: April 21, 1809
Died: July 18, 1887
Buried: Loretto, Virginia

HUNTER, Robert Mercer Taliaferro, a Representative and a Senator from Virginia; was born at ‘Mount Pleasant,’ near Loretto, Essex County, Va., April 21, 1809; tutored at home; graduated from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1828; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1830 and commenced practice at Lloyds; member, State general assembly 1834-1837; elected as a States-Rights Whig to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1843); Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Twenty-sixth Congress; unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-eighth Congress; elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia (Twenty-ninth Congress); elected to the United States Senate in 1846; reelected in 1852 and 1858 and served from March 4, 1847, to March 28, 1861, when he withdrew; expelled from the Senate in 1861 for support of the rebellion; chairman, Committee on Public Buildings (Thirtieth through Thirty-second Congresses), Committee on Finance (Thirty-first through Thirty-sixth Congresses); delegate from Virginia to the Confederate Provincial Congress at Richmond; Confederate Secretary of State 1861-1862; served in the Confederate Senate from Virginia in the First and Second Congresses 1862-1865 and was President pro tempore on various occasions; was one of the peace commissioners that met with President Abraham Lincoln in Hampton Roads in February 1865; briefly imprisoned at the end of the Civil War; State treasurer of Virginia 1874-1880; collector for the port of Tappahannock, Va. 1885; died on his estate ‘Fonthill,’ near Lloyds, Va., on July 18, 1887; interment in ‘Elmwood,’ the family burial ground, near Loretto, Va.

Bibliography

DAB; Fisher, John E. ‘Statesman of a Lost Cause: The Career of R.M.T. Hunter, 1859-1887.’ Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia, 1966; Moore, Richard Randall, “Robert M.T. Hunter and the Crisis of the Union, 1860-1861.” Southern Historian 13 (Spring 1992): 25-35.

Ancestor: 5th Cousin Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett, Representative from Virginia of the First Confederate Congress 1862-1864
Born: July 25, 1821
Died: February 14, 1864
Buried: Loretto, Virginia
 

GARNETT, Muscoe Russell Hunter, (grandson of James Mercer Garnett), a Representative from Virginia; born at “Elmwood,” near Loretto, Essex County, Va., July 25, 1821; tutored at home and was graduated from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville (literary department in 1839 and the law department in 1842); was admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced the practice of his profession in Loretto, Va.; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1850 and 1851; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1852 and 1856; member of the State house of delegates 1853-1856; member of the board of visitors of the University of Virginia 1855-1859; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas H. Bayly; reelected to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses and served from December 1, 1856, to March 3, 1861; delegate to the Virginia secession convention and to the State constitutional convention in 1861; member from Virginia of the First Confederate Congress 1862-1864; died at “Elmwood,” near Loretto, Va., on February 14, 1864; interment in the family cemetery on his estate.