XXV Army Corps, 2nd Division
XXV Army Corps Badge 2nd Division (XXV Corps): Brigadier General William Birney (ordered to return to Petersburg on April 7), these troops were temporarily attached to the XXIV Corps (1,910) 2nd Brigade: Colonel Ulysses Doubleday 8th United States Colored Troops 41st United States Colored Troops 45th United States Colored Troops 127th United States Colored Troops 3rd Brigade: Colonel William W. Woodward 29th United States Colored Troops 31st United States Colored Troops 116th United States Colored Troops |
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Several regiments of United States Colored Troops fought on the front line in the Battle of Appomattox Court House on the morning of April 9, 1865. Blacks served in segregated units under white officers. The U.S. Army would not be integrated until the Korean War.