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Killed October 21, 1864.
Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Died at Morris Island, S. C., Oct. 9, 1863. Died at Morris Island, S. C., Sept. 9, 1863. Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865.
Gould, Robert .. do
July 21, '63,
Gibben, Francis .do
July 21, '63,
Green, Joseph .. .. do
July 21, '63,
Harris, William B .. .. do
Jan. 14, '65,
Hardway, James. do
Jan. 19, '65,
Hones, James .. .do
Dec. 7, *64,
Harman, James H. .do
July 21, '63,
Higgins, Wm. I .. do
July 21, '63,
Harrison, George do July 21, '63, Herth, William ... .. do Dec. 21, '64, Howard, Thomas .. do July 20, '63, Aug. 29, '64,
Halcus, James A ... do
Henry, Golden. .... do July 21, '63, Jackson, Enos ... .. do July 21, '63, Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865.
July 21, '63, Jan. 24, '65, Oct. 6, '64, Sept. 30, '64, Sept. 23, '64, Sept. 14, '64, July 21, '63, July 21, '63, April 4, '64, July 21, '63, July 22, '63,
Minus, John H .. do
Manly, Alexander .. do
July 21, '63, 29, '64, Dec.
July 21, '63,
July 25, '63,
Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865.
Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Dec. 5, 1864. Sub .- disch. on Surgeon's certificate, Aug. 2, 1865. Died at Morris Island, S. C., Sept. 18, 1863. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Died at Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 16, 1864. Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, July 11, 1865. Died July 15, 1864.
July 23, '63,
941
THREE YEARS' SERVICE.
NAME.
RANK.
DATE OF MUSTER INTO SERVICE.
REMARK3.
Watson, Wilson
Private
July 21, '63,
Wilson, Peter
.. do .....
July 21, '63,
Wilson, John M.
do
July 21, '63,
Wilmore, Charles.
do
Dec. 30, '64,
Sub-discharged-date unknown.
Woods, Alfred.
.do
July 21, '63,
Died at Beaufort, S. C., March 14, 1864.
York, George ...
.do
July 20, '63, | Discharged-date unknown.
COMPANY K.
Adam C. Nutt
Capt ....
Aug. 24, '63,
William E. Furness
Ist Lt. .
Aug. 10, '63,
Pierpont C. Turner
.. do
Aug. 1, '63,
Win. H. Walrath.
.do
July 26, '63,
Cyrus W. Brown
do
Aug. 11, '63,
Chas. L. Rundell .
do
Aug.
, '63,
John D. Blaker
2d Lt ..
July 26, '63, Oct. 22, '65,
Isaac D. Henderson
1st Sgt. July 23, '63,
John Anderson do July 15, '63,
John B. Williams
Serg' .. July 10, '63,
Josephus Cisco do July 20, '63,
Thomas P. Harry .. do July 23, '63,
Newton Phillips .do July 17, '63,
James Gardner
Corp ....
July 16, '63,
Thomas Miner .. do
July 17, '63,
Harrison Dawson
.do
July 11, '63,
Elisha M'Guire
.do
July 13, '63,
Henry Gyles.
.do
July 23, '63,
Peely Lewis
.do
July 15, '63,
Robert H. Lee
do
July 23, '63,
David Coffey do July 14, '63,
Samuel S. Johnson do July 17, '63,
Wm. Richardson ... .. do
July 24, '63,
Benjamin Williams ... do July 17, '63,
Joel M. Moss Muc
May 26, '64,
Robert Brown. do
July 13, '63,
Auty, Benjamin
Private July 16, '63,
Baynard, Elihu. do July 24, '63, Bee, John .. do 13, '63,
July
Bouller, William .. .. dc July 24, '63,
Bradley, Benjamin do July 18, '63, Jan.
Bradley, Edward .. do 4, '65,
July 13, '63, Brown, William do
Brown, Nathaniel ... do July 20, '63,
Brown, William H. .do Jan. 4, '65, Bumford, Thos. B .. .do
July 16, '63, Burr, Charles do July 18, '63,
Bell, James do July 23, '63,
Brooks, Clinton. do
July 18, '63,
Bryant, Enoch. .do Sept. 6, '64,
Basier, Howard. do July 17, '63,
Brown. Thomas H .. do
July 24, '63,
Cole, John do Craig, David do
July 23, '63, July 16, '63, Dec. 7, '64,
Clemens, William. do Coutes, William do July 24, '63,
Dowery, Calvin .... .do Sept. 20, '64,
Ennis, James .. do July 17, '63,
Fairfax, Joseph .do July 17, '63,
Francisco, Henry
do
Jan. 11, '65,
Fullam, James .do July 13, '63,
Flowers, William. do July 24, '63,
Graden, Carey.
.do
July 13, '63,
Gardner, John W
da
July 17, '63,
Gray, William H .. .do Mar. 28, '65,
Mustered out with company. Oct. 31, 1865. Transferred to company D), Oct. 22, 1863. Transferred to company E, Dec. 1, 1863. Transferred to company H, June 22, 1864. Promoted to Adjutant, Juue 23. 1865.
Promoted from 2d Lt., June 23, 1865-to Capt. 54th regiment N. Y. Volunteers, Oct. 19, 1865. Transferred to company C, Dec. 1, 1863. Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Pr. to Cor., March 14, '64-to Sgt., Dec. 14, '64-to 1st Sgt., Jan. 1, '65-mus. out with Co., Oct. 31, '65. Deserted August 6, 1863.
Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Pr. fr. priv., Sept.8,'63-mus. out with Co., Oct. 31. 65. Sub .- pr. to Cor., Dec. 14,'64-to Sgt., July 20, '65- mustered out with company, Oct. 31. 1865.
Sub .- promoted to Corporal, August 4, 1863-mus- tered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- promoted to Corporal, April 6, 1864-mus- tered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- promoted to Corporal, August 22, 1864-mus- tered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- promoted to Corporal, Sept. 3, 1864-mus- tered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Pr. to Cor., Dec. 14,'64-inus. out with Co., Oct.31,'65. Sub .- promoted to Corporal, March 10, 1865-mus- tered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865.
Pr.to Cor., July 20, '65-mus.out with Co., Oct.31,'65. Sub .- proinoted to Corporal, July 20, 1865-mus- tered out with company. Oct. 31, 1865.
Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Nov. 9, 1863. Deserted August 12, 1863.
Deserted August 6, 1863.
Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- absent, in arrest, at muster out.
Sub .- inustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865.
Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865.' Sub .- deserted Aug. 6, 1863-returned April 14, 1864-mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out withi company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Absent, sick, at muster out.
Sub .- discharged-date unknown.
Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, June 6, 1865. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Sept. 6, 1865. Deserted August 6, 1863.
Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- absent, in arrest, at muster out. Sub .- discharged-date unknown.
Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Sept. 20, 1863. Sub .- discharged Feb. 27, 1867, to date Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. 5. Died at Jacksonville, Fla., May 3, 1864. Deserted August 10, 1863.
Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865.
Wm. D. F. Landon
.. do
Mmstered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Discharged-date unknown. Discharged-date unknown.
942
THIRD UNITED STATES COLORED REGIMENT.
NAME.
RANK
DATE OF MUSTER INTO SERVICE.
REMARK3.
Gibson, Jones ..
Private Sept. 23, '64,
Hall, Charles H
.. do
July 24, '63,
Hawkins, John W.
.do
July 24, '63,
Hawkins, Charles ...
.. do
Dec. 20, '64,
Hasdin, Stephen ...
.. do
Jan.
6, '65,
Holland, Janies
.. do
July 24, '63,
Hackley, William ..
. do
July
15, '63,
Hogan, James
.do
July
24, '63,
Johnson, William.
.do
July
23, '63,
Johnson, Purnel. do
July
24, 63,
Jordan, Moses
do
July
23, '63,
Jordan, John
do
Dec.
13, '64,
Jackson, James
do
July
17, '63,
Jones, Peter
do
July
18. 63,
Johnson, Clem.
.do
July 23, '63,
Jones, Israel ..
do
July 18, '63,
Jackson, Francis
do
July 18, '63,
Jones, Daniel
.do
July
15, '63,
Kelly, Samuel.
.. do
Dec.
23, '64,
Leonard, Peter
Marshall, And'w H.
.do
July 15, '63,
Mines, Edward
do
July 21, '63,
Mitchell, John.
.. do
Jan.
10, '65,
M'Pherson, John .. do
July 23, '63,
Nathaniel, Joseph. do Sept. 10, '64,
Parsons, Charles. do
July 17, '63,
Phillips, Nelson .do
July
16, '63,
Phillips, Chas. W do
Dec.
28, '64,
Penny, George .. do
July 17, '63,
Penny, Samuel R ... do
July 16, '63,
Penny, Reeves. .do
July
17, '63,
Palmer, Thomas M. do
July
16, '63,
Polsar, George. do
July
15, '63,
Perry, Wyatt.
.do July 23, '63,
Phillips, Franklin ..
.. do
July
16,
'63,
Phillips, French .do
July
16,
'63,
Ralph, Dolph .do
Sept. 20,
Roach, Isaac H .. .. do July
24, 763,
Reddick, David. .do
July
18, '63,
Roberts, James .. do
July 16,
'63,
Reed, Abraham do
July
13, $63,
Robertson, William .. do
Dec.
21, '64,
Smith, Edward T .. .. do July
24, '63,
Smith, Henry W. .do
July
15, '63,
Stewart, William. do
July
18, '63,
Slater, Peter .. do
July
14, '63,
Stout, John. do
Dec.
July
18, '63,
Schenck, Moses do
Oct.
5, '64,
Taylor, George .. .do
Jan.
11, '65,
Taylor, Isaac .do
Jan.
5,
'65.
Thomas, John do Jan.
3, '65,
Thomas, Franklin .. do
Nov. 30, '64,
Thompson, Wallace .do
Jan.
6, '65,
Vacter, John do
July
18, '63,
Williams, James. do
July
16, '63,
Wallace, William ... do July 15, '63,
Woodward, E. G. .. do Mar. 25, '65,
Webb, Robert ., ... do July 16, '63,
Watts, Daniel ... do.
July 24, '63,
UNASSIGNED MAN.
Moree, William
Private| Feb. 13, '64,
Disch. February 27, 1867, to date October 31, 1865.
-
Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, October, 1863. Died at Morris Island, S. C., January 25, 1864. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865 .. Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865.
Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- absent, in arrest, at muster out. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865.
Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- discharged-date unknown.
Died at Jacksonville, Florida, April 14, 1865.
Shandon, Alex. .do
Sept.
7, '64, S,
'64,
Shorter, John W do
Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered ont with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, Feb 8, 1865. Deserted August 4, 1863.
Sub .- discharged-date unknown.
Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, June 21, 1864. Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865.
Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Discharged-date unknown.
Wounded at Morris Island, S. C., Aug. 27, 1863- discharged on Surgeon's certificate, May 15, 1864. Discharged on Surgeon's certificate, June 6, 1865. Killed at Morris Island, S. C., August 27, 1863. Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865.
Died at Jacksonville, Florida, February 10, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Died at Jacksonville, Florida, August 26, 1865, of accidental wounds.
Absent, in arrest, at muster out.
Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Sub .- mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865. Mustered out with company, Oct. 31, 1865.
'64,
do July 18, '63,
SIXTH UNITED STATES COLORED REGIMENT.
THE greater portion of the enlisted men composing this regiment, were from various sections of the State of Pennsylvania, and were organized at Camp William Penn, near Philadelphia, between the 26th of July, and the 12th of September, 1863. The following were the field officers: John W. Ames, Colonel; Clark E. Royce, Lieutenant Colonel; Joseph B. Kiddoo, Major. Colonel Ames had served as Captain in the Eleventh Regular Infantry, Lieu- tenant Colonel Royce, as Captain in the Ellsworth (New York) Regiment, and Major Kiddoo in the Sixty-third and One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Penn- sylvania regiments. Of the line officers, Captain Robert B. Beath had served in the Eighty-eighth, Captain John M'Murray, in the One Hundred and Thir- ty-fifth, Lieutenant William A. Glass, in the Ninth Reserve, Lieutenant Fred- erick Meyer, in the One Hundred and Twelfth, and Lieutenant Frank Osborne, of Philadelphia, had lost an arm on the Peninsula.
On the 14th of October, the regiment left Philadelphia, to join the Army of the James, and upon its arrival at Fortress Monroe, was sent by General Butler, then in command, to Yorktown, where it went into camp, and during the suc- ceeding winter, performed severe fatigue duty upon the fortifications. Troops were frequently sent out upon raids through the adjoining counties, and up . the Peninsula, in which this regiment participated. Early in February, 1864, it having been ascertained that Richmond was feebly defended, a plan was formed for surprising the garrison at Belle Isle, where large numbers of Union prisoners were confined, and of releasing them by a sudden and speedy move- ment from General Butler's lines. The Sixth formed part of the force detailed for this enterprise, and executed the orders for its movement with great prompt- ness and celerity ; but on the night before starting, a soldier under sentence of death, escaped to the rebel lines, and gave information concerning the con- templated movement, enabling the enemy to make ample preparations for its defeat. The regiment marched forty-two miles in twenty-four hours, a severe test of its endurance, penetrating to Bottom's Bridge, twelve miles from Rich- mond. But finding the ways obstructed by felled timber, and the enemy fully prepared to defeat the purpose of the expedition, the troops returned again to quarters.
On the 5th of May, General Butler sent a force, of which the Sixth formed part, to operate on the James River. It moved by transport, and started as if to ascend the York and Pamunky rivers, but returned at night, and passing up the James, landed at City Point, from which the enemy had been previ- ously driven by a company of sharp-shooters, selected from the several colored
944
SIXTH UNITED STATES COLORED REGIMENT,
regiments, under command of Captain Philip Weinman, of the Sixth. After remaining a few days at this place, the regiment was stationed at Spring Hill, on the Appomattox, five miles from Petersburg. Here, in conjunction with the Fourth Colored, it built a strong earth-work, afterwards known as Redoubt Converse, intended for the protection of the pontoon bridge at that point. The Fourth was shortly afterwards withdrawn, leaving the Sixth as the nearest outpost to Petersburg. On the 20th, the enemy attacked the picket lines in strong force, with the design of capturing the works; but the regiment suc- cessfully maintained its position until reinforcements arrived, when the enemy withdrew.
On the 15th of June, the Sixth, together with the Fourth, Fifth, and Twen- ty-second Colored, attacked the left of the rebel earth-works in front of Peters- burg, and by a determined charge carried the position, resting at midnight within the enemy's strong fortifications. Early on the morning of the 16th, the colored soldiers of the Army of the James, hailed for the first time, the battle- flags of the Army of the Potomac, a division under General Birney, marching in to their relief. The capture of these strong works by the colored troops, was well calculated to inspire respect among the veterans, now rapidly arriving from the Wilderness campaign, for none knew better than they how to appre- ciate valor. Until near the close of August, the Sixth was kept almost con- stantly on duty in the trenches in front of Petersburg. It was then transferred to Dutch Gap, on the James, and assigned to fatigue duty upon the canal, which had just then been commenced. The labor here was harassing and fatiguing in the extreme, the men being compelled to work day after day under the steady fire of the rebel mortars. In addition to exhausting toil, and the effect of bursting shells, they were exposed to the noxious vapors of the river, and from these causes combined, the ranks of the regiments were rapidly depleted.
On the 29th of September, General Ord, in command of the Eighteenth Corps, attacked and carried a long line of intrenchments below Chapin's Farm. At the same time, General Birney advanced from Deep Bottom, driving the enemy on the New Market Road, back to the heights. In this movement, the Fourth and Sixth Colored had the advance, and gallantly pushed the enemy, until he had arrived at his intrenchments forming the outer defences of Rich- mond. Here a halt was ordered, and preparations were made for an assault. The enemy was strongly posted and was in heavy force; but at the signal to advance, the Sixth went gallantly forward in the face of a withering fire which thinned its ranks at every step. In its course, it was obliged to cross a small stream, and then an open field ; but without wavering, it pressed on until more than half its numbers had fallen, and nearly all its officers were lost; when, seeing the fruitlessness of further pushing the charge with so weak a force, the signal was given to retire. The regiment entered the battle with three bun- dred and sixty-seven, rank and file. Of this number, three officers and thirty- nine men were killed, eleven officers and one hundred and fifty men wounded, and seven missing, an aggregate of two hundred and ten, more than sixty-two per cent. of its strength. Captains George W. Sheldon and Charles V. York, and Lieutenant Frederick Meyer, were killed ; and Lieutenants Eber C. Pratt, Lafayette Landon, and John M'Avoy, were mortally wounded. Major H. J. Covell, Captain Robert B. Beath, and Lieutenants N. N. Hubbard, N. H. Ed- gerton, and J. W. Johnson, were severely, and Colonel Ames, Lieutenant Colo- nel Royce, and Lieutenant Enoch Jackman, slightly wounded.
945
THREE YEARS' SERVICE.
General Butler, in an order of October 11, says: "Of the colored soldiers of the Third Division of the Tenth and Eighteenth corps, the general com- manding desires to make special mention. In the charge on the enemy's works by the Colored Division of the Eighteenth Corps, at Spring Hill and New Mar- ket, better men were never better led, better officers never led better men. With hardly an exception, officers of colored troops have justified the care with which they have been selected. A few more such charges, and to com- mand colored troops will be the post of honor in the American armies. The colored soldiers, by coolness, steadiness, and determined courage and dash, have silenced every cavil of the doubters of their soldierly capacity, and drawn tokens of admiration from their enemies." Adjutant N. H. Edgerton was pro- moted to Captain, Sergeants Kelly and Elsberg, and Corporal Kelly were awarded medals for their gallantry, and the words " Petersburg," and "New Market Heights" were ordered to be inscribed on the flag.
The regiment afterwards sailed with both commands sent out for the re- duction of Fort Fisher. The latter, under General Terry, proved successful; but the colored troops were not engaged with the storming party, being sent some miles inland, to prevent reinforcements from reaching the enemy, per- forming this duty in a satisfactory manner. On the 19th of January, 1865, the Sixth participated in a sharp encounter at Sugar Loaf Hill, North Carolina, where Captain Newton J. Hotchkiss was mortally wounded, dying two days after, and considerable loss in killed and wounded was sustained. On the 11th of February, during a sharp contest on the skirmish line, Daniel K. Healy was severely wounded, and Lieutenant Edward Field, commanding company A, was killed. Upon the death of Lieutenant Field, the direction devolved on Sergeant Richard Carter, (colored,) who commanded with great skill and cour- age, until the company was relieved. The regiment participated in all the movements of the division in North Carolina, until the final surrender of the rebel forces, when it was ordered to duty at Wilmington, and remained there until its muster out of service on the 20th of September.
FIELD AND STAFF OFFICERS.
NAME.
RANK.
DATE OF MUSTER INTO SERVICE.
REMARKS.
John W. Ames
Colonel
May 14, '61,
Clark E. Royce ..
Lt. Col
Oct.
5, '03,
Joseph B. Kiddoo ... Harvey J. Covell ..
Major .. ... do
Oct.
Oct.
5, '63, 5, '68,
Promoted from Capt. 11th Infantry, U. S. A., Sept. 23, 1863-wounded at New Market Heights, Va., Sept. 29, 1864-brevet Brigadier General, Jan. 15, 1865-mustered out with regiment, Sept. 20, 1865. Pr. from Capt. 44th reg. N. Y. Vols .- wd. at New Market Heights, Va., Sept. 29,'64-pr. to Col. 29th reg. U. S. C. T., Jan. 1, 1805-disch. Nov. 6, 1865. Promoted to Col. 22d reg. U. S. C. T., Jan. 6, 1864. Promoted from Captain Co. B, March 5, 1864-dis- charged April 25, 1865. for wounds received at New Market Heights, Va., Sept. 29, 1864.
W. R. Hammond ...
Adj ....
Aug. 22, '63,
Promoted from 2d Lt. company E, May 1, 1865- mustered out with regiment, Sept. 20, 1865.
Charles V. York
.do
Aug. 15, '63,
Promoted from Ist Lt company A, Oct. 12, 1863- to Captain company B, March 29, 1864.
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SIXTH UNITED STATES COLORED REGIMENT,
NAME.
RASK.
DATE OF MUSTER INTO SESVICE.
REMARKS.
Nathan Edgerton ...
Adjt
Sept, 16, '63,
Lewis M. Hosfield .. Leeman Barnes
Surg ...
Sept. 8, '63,
Columbus J. White
As.Sur.
June 21, '65, Aug. 24, '65,
Geo. V. R. Merrill ..
.. do
Oct.
5, '63,
Jeremiah Asher ... John W. Jackson ...
Chap'n Sr. Maj.
Dec. 4, '63,
July 30, '63,
Thomas R. Hawkins
do
Aug. 4, '63,
William Watson
Q. M. Sr
Sept. 10, '63,
Charles W. Jones ..
do
July 29, '63,
T. O. W. Hamilton
Com.Sr July 28, '63,
Isaiah L. Lyons ...
Hos. St. Sept. 4, '63,
Promoted from Ist Lieutenant company H, April, 1864-to Captain company H, May 1, 1865. Mustered out with regiment, Sept. 20, 1865. Promoted from Assistant Surgeon, July 30, 1864- mustered out with regiment, Sept. 20, 1865. Mustered out with regiment, Sept. 20, 1865. Mustered out with regiment, Sept. 20, 1865. Promoted to Surgeon 5th reg. U. S. C. Troops. June 18, 1865-mustered out, September 20, 1865. Died at Wilmington, N. C., July 27, 1865 .. Promoted from 1st Sgt. Co. B, March 29, IS05- mustered out with regiment, Sept. 20, 1865. Sub .- pr. from private Co. C, Aug. 23, 1863-disch. May 20, 1865, for wounds received in action. Promoted from private company I, September 11, 1863-not on muster-out roll.
Drafted-mus. out with regiment, Sept. 20, 1555. Promoted from private company A, Aug. 22, '63- mustered out with regiment, Sept. 20, 1805. Absent, sick, at muster out.
COMPANY A.
.
Robert B. Beath ...
Capt ....
Sept. 5, '61,
Pr. fr. Capt. Co. D, 88th reg. P. V., Aug. 29,'63-wd., with loss of leg, at New Market, Heights, Va., Sept. 29. 1864-com. Lt. Col., Sept. 26, 1865-not mus .- mustered out with regiment, Sept. 20, '65. Promoted to Adjutant, October 12, 1863.
( harles V. York ...
1st Lt ...
Aug. 15, '63, Aug. 22, '65,
Promoted to Captain company G, Aug. 9, 1865.
Lionel D. Phillips ..
.do
Jan. 7, '65,
Promoted from 2d Lieutenant company G, Aug. 9, 1865-discharged, to date Sept. 20, 1865.
Asa L. Jones.
2d Lt ..
Sept. 23, '63,
Discharged September 22, for wounds received at Petersburg, Va., June 15, 1864.
Edward Field.
do
Nov. 19, '64,
Carl Kaiser
do
Sept. 19, '65,
Richard Carter
1st Sgt .. July 27, '63,
John Milburn ..
Serg't .. July 27, '63,
Israel Henry
.do
July 25, '63,
Benjamin J. Glasco
... do July 27, '63,
John Scott ..
.. do July 13, '63,
Theodore Jones
Corp ....
July 14, '63,
lienry Johnson
.do
July 27, '63,
Mordecai West
.. do
July 23, '63,
Nathaniel Logan.
.do
July 27, '63,
John Ross ..
.do
July 27, '63,
James W. Thomas .. .do
July 23, '63,
Francis Davis do July 27, '63,
Charles Dennis .do July 28, '63,
Solomon Alberts .. do July 23, '63,
Nehemiah Loper .. do July 23, '63,
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