40th United States Colored Infantry
Regimental History and Service Record
Organized at Nashville, Tenn., February 29, 1864. Attached to Defenses of Louisville & Nashville Railroad, Dept. of the Cumberland, to June, 1864. Defenses Nashville & Northwestern Railroad, Dept. of the Cumberland, to December, 1864. Defenses of Louisville & Nashville Railroad, Dept. of the Cumberland, to April, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, District of East Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to July, 1865. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, Dist. East Tennessee, to August, 1865, Dept. of the Tennessee to April, 1866.
SERVICE.--Railroad guard duty entire term, on Nashville & Louisville Railroad and Nashville & Northwestern Railroad, and in District of East Tennessee. Action at South Tunnel, Tenn., October 10, 1864. Mustered out April 25, 1866.
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Notes
Sources
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Page 1730)
