48th United States Colored Infantry

Regimental History and Service Record

Organized March 11, 1864, from 10th Louisiana Infantry (African Descent) (U). Attached to 1st Colored Brigade, District of Vicksburg, Miss., to April, 1864. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, United States Colored Troops, District of Vicksburg, Miss., to February, 1865. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, United States Colored Troops, Military Division West Mississippi, to May, 1865. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, United States Colored Troops, District of West Florida, to June, 1865. Dept. of the Gulf to January, 1866.

SERVICE.--Garrison duty at Vicksburg, Miss., until February, 1865.

• September 29-October 3, 1864 - Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Rodney and Fayette, Mississippi
• July 4, 1864 - Skirmish at Vicksburg, Mississippi

Ordered to Algiers. La., February 26, 1865; thence to Barrancas, Fla. March from Pensacola, Fla., to Blakely, Ala.,March 20-April 1. Siege of Fort Blakely April 1-9. Assault and capture of Fort Blakely April 9. Occupation of Mobile April 12. March to Montgomery April 13-25. Duty there and at Mobile until June. Moved to New Orleans, La., thence to Texas. Duty at various points on the Rio Grande until January, 1866. Mustered out January 4, 1866.

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Regiment Statistical Information

• Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 59 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 464 Enlisted men by disease. Total 527.

Legacy

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Sources

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 787, 788, 1731-1732)