38th Infantry Regiment, United States Colored Troops
The 38th United States Colored Troops lost 1 officer and 42 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 192 enlisted men by disease during the Civil War.
1864 |
January 23 |
Organized in Virginia |
January-June |
Duty at Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va. attached to U.S. Forces, Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
June - April |
Operations against Petersburg, and Richmondattached to Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
August |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 18th Corps, Army of the James |
September 29-30 |
Battle of Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights |
October 1 |
Deep Bottom |
October 27-28 |
Battle of Fair Oaks |
November |
Duty in trenches north of James River before Richmond |
December |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 25th Corps, then 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 25th Corps |
1865 |
April 3 |
Occupation of Richmond |
April |
Duty in the Dept. of Virginia |
May 24-June 6 |
Moved to Texas |
June |
Duty at Brownsville and at various points on the Rio Grande and at Brazos Santiago, Indianola and Galveston, Texas |
1867 |
January 25 |
Mustered out |
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