UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS
109th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry
- Overview:
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Organized at Louisville, Ky., July 5, 1864. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st
Division, District of Kentucky, 5th Division, 23rd Corps, Dept. of the Ohio,
to October, 1864. Martindale's Provisional Brigade, 18th Corps, Army of the
James, to December, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 25th Corps and Dept.
of Texas, to March, 1866.
- Service:
- Duty at Louisville and Louisa, Ky., till October, 1864. Ordered
to join Army of the Potomac before Petersburg and Richmond, Va. Duty at Deep
Bottom and in trenches before Richmond north of the James River till March,
1865. Actions at Fort Harrison December 10, 1864, and January 23, 1865. Moved
to Hatcher's Run March 27-28. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. Boydton
Road, Hatcher's Run, March 29-31. Fall of
Petersburg April
2. Pursuit of Lee April 3-9.
Appomattox Court
House April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. Duty at Petersburg and City
Point till May. Embarked for Texas May 25, arriving at Indianola, Texas,
June 25. Duty there and on the Rio Grande, Texas, till March, 1866. Mustered
out March 21, 1866.
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