ORGANIZATION OF UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS IN THE NORTHERN STATES

.....PLUS THE CONNECTICUT AND MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER REGIMENTS

CONNECTICUT

• 29TH CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER INFANTRY (New Haven - March, 1864)

ILLINOIS

• 29TH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY (Quincy - April 24, 1864)

INDIANA

• 28TH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY (Indianapolis - December 24, 1863)

IOWA

• 60TH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY (Keokuk - as 1st Iowa Colored Infantry - October, 1863)

KANSAS

• 79TH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY (Fort Scott - as 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry - January, 1863)

• 83RD U. S. COLORED INFANTRY (Forts Scott and Leavenworth - as 2nd Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry - August, 1863)

MASSACHUSETTS

• 54TH MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY

• 55TH MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY

• 5TH MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER CAVALRY

MICHIGAN

• 102ND U. S. COLORED INFANTRY (Detroit - as 1st Michigan Colored Volunteers - February, 1864)

NEW YORK

• 20TH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY (Riker's Island - February 9, 1864)

• 26TH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY (Riker's Island - February 27, 1864)

• 31ST U. S. COLORED INFANTRY (Hart's Island - April 29, 1864)

OHIO

• 5TH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY (Camp Delaware - as 127th Ohio Volunteer Infantry - August - November, 1863)

• 27TH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY (Camp Delaware - January 16, 1864)

PENNSYLVANIA

• 3RD U. S. COLORED INFANTRY (Camp William Penn - August 3-10, 1863)

• 6TH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY (Camp William Penn - July 28 - September 12, 1863)

• 8TH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY (Camp William Penn - September 22 - December 4, 1863)

• 22ND U. S. COLORED INFANTRY (Philadelphia - January 10-29, 1864)

• 24TH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY (Camp William Penn - January 30 - March 30, 1865)

• 25TH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY (Philadelphia - January 3 - February 12, 1864)

• 32ND U. S. COLORED INFANTRY (Camp William Penn - February 7 - March 7, 1864)

• 41ST U. S. COLORED INFANTRY (Camp William Penn - September 30 - December 7, 1864)

• 43RD U. S. COLORED INFANTRY (Philadelphia - March 12 - June 3, 1864)

• 45TH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY (Philadelphia - June 13 - August 19, 1864)

• 127TH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY (Camp William Penn - August 23 - September 10, 1864)

RHODES ISLAND

• 11TH U. S. COLORED HEAVY ARTILLERY (Providence - as 14th Rhode Island Colored Heavy Artillery - August, 1863)

REFERENCES AND SOURCES:

• Dyer, Frederick H. A COMPENDIUM OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 3 Volumes. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.

• Gladstone, William A. MEN OF COLOR. Gettysburg: Thomas Publications, 1993.

• National Park Service. Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System

• United States War Department. THE WAR OF THE REBELLION: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. 128 Volumes. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901.

• Wilson, Joseph T. THE BLACK PHALANX: A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the Wars of 1775-1812, 1861-'65. Hartford, CT.: American Publishing Company, 1890. (Copyright 1968 by Arno Press, Inc., and reprinted by Ayer Company Publishers, Inc., 1992.)

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