12th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry

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Title: 12th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry
Alternate name: 12th Infantry, USCT
Allegiance: United States of America
Description: Organized in Tennessee at large July 24 to August 14, 1863. Attached to Defences of Nashville Camp; Northwestern Railroad, Dept. of the Cumberland, to October, 1864. 2nd Colored Brigade, District of the Etowah, Dept. of the Cumberland, to January, 1865. Defences of Nashville Camp; Northwestern Railroad, District of Middle Tennessee, to May, 1865. 3rd Sub-District, District Middle Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to January, 1866.; Railroad guard duty at various points in Tennessee and Alabama on line of the Nashville Camp; Northwestern Railroad till December, 1864. Repulse of Hood's attack on Johnsonville November 2, 4 and 5. Action at Buford's Station, Section 37, Nashville Camp; Northwestern Railroad, November 24. March to Clarksville, Tenn., and skirmish near that place December 2. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28. Action at Decatur, Ala., December 27-28. Railroad guard and garrison duty in the Dept. of the Cumberland till January, 1866.; Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 38 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 242 Enlisted men by disease. Total 284. --From 'Battle Unit Details,' National Park Service
Has site: Tennessee
Began: 24 Jul 1863
Ended: Jan 1866
Years duration: 1863-1866
Participant in: Civil War, 1861-1865
Source: Battle Unit Details: 12th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry

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