Rose... We meet again. <G> I'm sure there must be someone around who knows both more about the 4th Florida and Fernandina than I ever will, but just in case there isn't... The most definitive place to look for information about any Confederate soldier's cause of casualty, is his individual record in the Compiled Confederate Service Record on microfilm from the National Archives and available in various places including the Florida State Archives. These records are fragmentary, contain errors, and were compiled about 30 years after the fact by creating cards recording individual information from unit record documents such as muster rolls... plus any actual Civil War documents that existed concerning the individual soldier. I do not have a statistical breakdown, but there may have been more Civil War deaths by disease than by battle... and even if there was a battle in the area a particular soldier may have died from exposure to the elements, accident, or disease. I have one ancestor who seems to have been written up both ways by the Confederate medical corps, and I have the strong suspicion that they were so hard pressed that the person writing the record had no idea and dead being dead they just wrote some gibberish down and moved on to the next man. My recollection is that there were several Federal "occupations" and withdrawals from Fernandina. I don't recall there being much of a fight involved... but any time opposing forces came even into close proximity there was always a possibility that one or two stray soldiers might end up killed, wounded or captured. If you have ever read Erich Maria Remarque's _All Quiet on the Western Front_, you will know that to the man who died that day it was no consolation at all that the war was almost over and that there was no big battle that day. RW TOMNROSEJ@aol.com wrote: > > I had a Great Uncle James M. KERSEY that enlisted at St. Marks in Co. C 4th > Regiment during the Civil War. He died at Fernandina FL. on 17 Jan 1863. Was > there a battle going on there at that time during the Civil War? Or was that > where a hospital was for the Confederates. I would like to know where he was > buried. If anyone can help me I would appreciate it. > Thanks, Rose