This is a "work-in-progress".  If you have information on Civil War soldiers who lived in Blanton, let us know.
In the meantime, check Soldiers of Florida for the Hernando Guards .
(published under the supervision of the Board of State Institutions in Live Oak, Florida circa 1903.) 
 
 

Charles Blocker
  Octavis Blocker
Andrew E. Burnside
Levi Eiland
Abraham Gaskin

John G. Howell

Staten's Company
11 Georgia Cavalry
Rank - Induction: Sergeant
Rank - Discharge: Sergeant

Notes: Arrived in Echols Co. in 1839 : John G. Howell, son of Jessie Howell and Mary Zeigler.  Settled on a farm near his father's (Jessie).  He served as Sheriff of Echols co. in 1862-1864; also Justive of Peace, 1856-1864.  In 1866 he sold his plantation in Echols and moved to Florida, becoming a prosperous fruit grower there.  -- p. 124 Chinkypin I, II, III and Addendum : Echols County Historical Society, Inc.

b. born 1815;  moved Dec 1839 with wife and 1 child; 1st Lt. of the militia, 904th Dist., Lowndes Cp., 1851-1857. was a charter member of the Alapaha Masonic Lodge at Troublesome, renamed Statenville in 1858.  He served several offices with the Masons. Died in Pasco Co., FL in 1885.  His wife died soon after.  Both are buried at Mt. Zion Methodist Church in that county. 

 

 

John Jackson Howell
b.  12/09/1848            Echols County, GA
d.   05/31/1915           Pasco County, FL
Notes:* 128 acres near Blanton, 
8 acres of tilled, including fallow and grass inrotation;120 acres woodland and forest; farm value $1000, farming implements and machinery $50 - 1885 state agricultural census, Hernando County, FL
Chipco Grist Mill, Civil War Vet, Started Masons;
Founding Father of Pasco County
Matthew E. Jones

2nd Florida Cavalry
Company B
United States Army

A refugee from the Confederacy, Matthew E. Jones was enlisted on April 15, 1864 at Fort Myers by Capt. H. A. Crane, Furloughed on 28 September 1865; discharged Nov. 29, 1865, Tallahassee. Worked as farmer; had dark hair, blue eyes, dark complexion and was 5 feet 11 in tall.
William H. Morgan

Pension
John Marion O'Berry

Enlisted in CSA May 1, 1862 in the 4th GA Cavalry, Company G
    Honorably Discharged May 19, 1865

Pension
from Sarah Celeste Cope

SURRENDER !

Sarah received an email from a person who has access to the muster rolls of the 4th Georgia Calvary:

"...looking at the Muster Roll of the 4th Georgia
Calvary. There's not a lot of personal information in
it, but it does state when each soldier was paid, if
he was present, or sick, in the hospital, wounded, or
on leave. John M. was sick and left by his officers in
the care of a family in Florida on April 23, 1864. At
that time the 4th was near Orange Springs, Florida and
returned to Camp Mercer, Georgia. They had been sent
down to Florida on February 13, 1864, and was engaged
in the Battle of Ocean Pond on February 20th and the
skirmishes around Palatka afterwards."

 
 

John W. Platt
b. Dec 26 1833 d. Jan 6 1920

2nd Florida Cavalry
Company B
United States Army
Rank Induction: 1 Lieut
Rank Discharge: 1 Lieut.

(1st Lt. John Wesley Platt - A son of John Platt (1793-1874) and Alice Blackshear Platt (1807-1891), he was born Dec. 26, 1833, Lowndes Co., Ga. In the 1840s the family moved to North Florida, then to Hernando Co. before 1852, and in 1855 to Lily, Manatee (now Hardee) Co., Fla. He enlisted as 1st Lt, Co. B, May 26, 1864 at Fort Myers and was dishonorably discharged Feb. 28, 1865 at Fort Myers. After the war, the U. S. War Department revoked his dishonorable discharge and discharged him Jan. 19, 1865. He died Jan. 6, 1920. On July 7, 1859, he had married Mary Jane Jackson. See “John Platt 1793-1874, ” South Florida Pioneers 29/30 (July/Oct. 1981) pp. 19-21.)
David Lott Sellars

b. May 4 1842 d. Dec 26 1919
"Twas hard to give thee up but thy will O God be done"