Located in Riverside Cemetery in Marianna, this stone memorializes Captain Harrison Tillinghast, an officer from Jackson County who was killed at the Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg), Maryland.Born in 1841, Tillinghast was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in Company F, 2nd Florida Infantry, on May 10, 1861. Promoted to 1st lieutenant one year later and finally to captain, he was with the 2nd Florida during Lee's 1862 invasion of the North. The son of a prominent Jackson County family, the 21 year old captain served in some of the bloodiest fighting of the war.
During the Peninsula campaign, he was wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines, Virginia. This was the same battle that resulted in the wounding of General Joseph E. Johnston and the assumption of command by General Robert E. Lee.
Tillinghast was killed in the brutal fighting at Antietam (Sharpsburg) and buried in Maryland, far from home. Like many Southern soldiers and officers, he was memorialized by his family at home through the erection of a stone in a local cemetery.
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