23rd Infantry Regiment, United States Colored Troops
The 23rd Infantry Regiment, United States Colored Troops lost 4 officers and 82 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 officer and 165 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War
1863 |
November 23-
June 30 |
Organized at Camp Casey, Va. |
1864 |
April |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 9th Corps, Army of the Potomac |
May and June |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River, Va. Guarding wagon trains Army of the Potomac through the Wilderness. |
June 15-18 |
Before Petersburg |
June 16 -
April 2 |
Siege of Petersburg and Richmond |
July 30 |
Mine Explosion, Petersburg |
August 18-21 |
Weldon Railroad |
September |
Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Corps |
September 28 |
Fort Sedgwick |
September 29-30 |
Poplar Grove Church |
October 27-28 |
Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run |
December 13 |
Bermuda Hundred |
December |
Duty on the Bermuda Hundred front assigned to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 25th Corps |
1865 |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
March 29-31 |
Hatcher's Run |
April 2 |
Fall of Petersburg |
April 3-9 |
Pursuit of Lee |
April 9 |
Appomattox Court House. Surrender of Lee and his army. |
April-May |
Duty in Dept. of Virginia |
May-June |
Moved to Texas |
June-November |
Duty at Brownsville and along the Rio Grande, Texas assigned to Dept. of Texas |
November 30 |
Mustered out
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