I did not want to sidetrack the military pedigree thread but I saw your post on the Battle of Olustee.

They do a reenactment of that battle each year, I went to it way back in 1981. Have you ever gone?

https://battleofolustee.org/forms_docs/schedule.html

I've been there but, never to the reenactment.

I have not, my mom grew up in Mayo and my pop-pop lived near Ft White, the family farm was across the street from Oleno state park(Mikesville)off 441. in fact pop-pops grand father ( so I guess my four times grandfather) donated the land to the state of Florida because he felt the public should see the river(SantaFe) disappear-it comes up several miles away.

We had family all over north Florida after WWII, his brothers settled in Jacksonville ( uncle Quintin was a lawyer in Jax and only recently died) and Amelia Island, and Lake City.

Last time I was nearby,I was at a family funeral and I visited Olustee on my way back to NC. Stopped and said a prayer for the men who died there.

My mom knows who died there and recounts that the family found out when a horse came home bloody and riderless. I guess they went the next day to go find the body. Not sure how he was related, but I think he was on my mothers grandmothers side of the family. (There is no listing of “Rumph” in the rolls. Rumph was my moms maiden name, and I know the Rumphs came to Florida thru Charleston Sc after they immigrated from Germany, probably in the 1700’s. But they married people already there....guess I better find out before this family info is lost to time.

ETA: there is also a story of when the northerners came to Lake City and while they were in a home eating, southerners threw all the rifles in the lake. Turns out, that some Enfield rifles were recovered from a pond in downtown Lake City several decades ago that give the story my mom heard were true.

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Thanks for that information. Kind of stories you hope never gets lost