UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS
127th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry
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Organized at Camp William Penn, Philadelphia, Pa., August 23 to September
10, 1864. Ordered to City Point, Va., September, 1864. Attached to 1st Brigade,
3rd Division, 10th Corps, Army of the James, to November, 1864. 2nd Brigade,
3rd Division, 10th Corps, to December, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 25th
Corps and Dept. of Texas, to October, 1865.
SERVICE -Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond, Va., September,
1864, to April, 1865.
Chaffin's Farm,
New Market Heights, September 29-30. Fort Harrison September 29. Darbytown
Road October 13. Battle of
Fair Oaks October
27-28. Duty in trenches north of the James River before Richmond till March,
1865. Moved to Hatcher's Run March 27-28. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April
9. 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 June. Moved to Brazos Santiago, Texas, June and July. Duty at
various points on the Rio Grande till October. Mustered out October 20,
1865.
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