13th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry

Title: 13th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry
Alternate name: 13th Infantry, USCT
Allegiance: United States of America
Description: Organized at Nashville, Tenn., November 19, 1863. Attached to Defences Nashville & Northwestern Railroad, Dept. of the Cumberland, to November, 1864. 2nd Colored Brigade. District of the Etowah, Dept. of the Cumberland, to January, 1865. Defences Nashville & Northwestern Railroad, District Middle Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to May, 1865. 3rd Sub-District, District Middle Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to January, 1866.; Railroad guard duty in Tennessee and Alabama on line of Nashville & Northwestern Railroad till December, 1864. Repulse of Hood's attack on Johnsonville, Tenn., September 25, and November 4 and 5. Eddyville, Ky., October 17 (Detachment). Battle of Nashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-18. Railroad guard and garrison duty in the Dept. of the Cumberland till January, 1866. Mustered out January 10, 1866.; Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 86 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 265 Enlisted men by disease. Total 355. --From 'Battle Unit Details,' National Park Service
Has site: Nashville (Tenn.)
Began: 19 Nov 1863
Ended: 10 Jan 1866
Years duration: 1863-1866
Participant in: Civil War, 1861-1865
Source: Battle Unit Details: 13th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry

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