5th United States Colored Heavy Artillery
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Organized from 1st Mississippi Heavy Artillery (African Descent) (U). Designated 4th Heavy Artillery March 11, 1864, and 5th Heavy Artillery April 26, 1864. Attached to 1st Division, United States Colored Troops, District of Vicksburg, Miss., to February, 1865. Unattached, Post of Vicksburg, Dept. of Mississippi, and Dept. of the Gulf to May, 1864.
SERVICE.--Garrison duty at Vicksburg, Miss., until May, 1866.
- September 29-October 3, 1864 -
Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Rodney and Fayette, Mississippi
- November 23-December 4, 1864 -
Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Yazoo City, Mississippi
- Mustered out May 20, 1866.
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Regiment Statistical Information
- Lost during service 4 Officers and 124 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 697 Enlisted men by disease. Total 829.
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Notes
Sources
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 788, 789, 1721)