The 43rd United States Colored Troops lost 3 officers and 48 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 188 enlisted men by disease during the Civil War.
1864 |
March 12 to June 3 |
Organized at Philadelphia, Pa. |
April 18 |
Moved to Annapolis, Md. Attached to 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 9th Corps, Army of the Potomac |
May-June |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River, Va. Guard trains of the Army of the Potomac through the Wilderness and to Petersburg. |
June 15-19 |
Before Petersburg |
June 16 - April 2 |
Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond |
July 30 |
Mine Explosion, Petersburg |
August 18-21 |
Weldon Railroad |
September |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Corps |
September 29-30 & October 1 |
Poplar Grove Church |
October 27-28 |
Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run |
November |
On the Bermuda Hundred front and before Richmond |
December |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 25th Corps |
1865 |
January |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 25th Corps |
March 27-28 |
Moved to Hatcher's Run |
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 at Petersburg and City Point |
May 30-June 10 |
Moved to Texas |
June-October |
Duty on the Rio Grande opposite Mattamoras, Mexico |
October 20 |
Mustered out |
November 30 |
Discharged at Philadelphia, Pa.
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