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FIRST
REGIMENT UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS
COMPANY G.
Mitchell, N., e. November, 1863, wounded at Black
Water, Mo., February, 1865.
FIFTH REGIMENT U. S. C. T.
This regiment was organized
during the summer and fall of 1863, and Col. J. W. Conine
was commissioned commander.
In December, it joined Gen. Wild in the raid to
Elizabeth City, N. C.; in January, 1861, moved to Yorktown,
and in May accompanied Gen. Butler in the expedition
against Fortress Monroe and Petersburg.
From the beginning of the siege of Petersburg, in June,
until the 15th of August, the regiment was almost constantly
in the trenches, building forts, or on the skirmish line;
and on the 29th of September took an active part in the
battle of Chapin's Farm, the storming of New Market Heights,
and the capture of Fort Harrison. It joined Gen.
Terry's expedition against Fort Fisher and Wilmington,
and was afterward engaged in the assault on Sugar Loaf and
Fort Anderson; then marched to Raleigh, N. C.
The Fifth was discharged on the 15th of October, 1865,
at Columbus, Ohio.
COMPANY A.
Mayo, George W., wounded at Petersburg, Va., July
30, 1864
Dious, Patrick, e. January, 1864, disc. April, 1865.
COMPANY D.
Johnson, A. J., e. Aug. 25, 1864, disc. Aug. 28,
1865
COMPANY E.
Taborn, James, e. January, 1865, disc. April, 1865
Taborn, John, e. January, 1865
COMPANY H.
Hill, William
TWELFTH REGIMENT U. S. C. T.
COMPANY M.
Sanders,Streeter, e. Jan. 17, 1865, disc. Jan. 29,
1866
TWENTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT U. S. C. T.
The Twenty-seventh Regiment U.
S. Colored Troops was organized at Camp Delaware, in
January, 1864, under Col. Blackburn, Companies A and
B being composed of recruits from Union and Logan Counties.
In April, the regiment entered the field, and having
been assigned to the First Brigade, Fourth Division, Ninth
Army Corps, commenced the campaign of 1864 in Virginia.
It took a prominent part in the assault upon Cemetery Hill,
Petersburg, Va., on the 30th of July, 1864, this being the
first engagement in which the regiment was actively engaged.
Of the troops from Union County, Harrison Taborn was
killed, and H. H. Chavous and W. D. Evans were
wounded in this engagement.
The regiment next shared in the expedition against Fort
Fisher and in the capture of Fort Buchanan, with about five
hundred prisoners. It then operated in North Carolina
until the close of the war, when it moved to Columbus, Ohio,
and was mustered out of the service in September, 1865.
COMPANY B.
Sergt. S. Heathcock, e. 1864, disc. 1865
Corp. William Mifflin?, e. 1864, disc. 1865
Chavous, H. H., e. Jan. 11, 1864, wounded at Petersburg,
Va., July 30, 1864, disc. February 10, 1865.
Evans, W. D., e. January, 1864, wounded at Petersburg,
Va., July 30, 1864
Taborn, Martin
Taborn, Harrison, e. January, 1864, killed at
Petersburg, Va., July 30, 1864.
COMPANY C.
Richardson, M., e. 1864, disc. September, 1865
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COMPANY H.
Harrison, J. H., e. April, 1864, disc. 1865
COMPANY I.
Butcher, Joseph, e. Aug. 29, 1864, disc. Sept. 4, 1865
FIFTY-FIFTH MASSACHUSETTS C. T.
RECRUITED IN UNION COUNTY.
Burns, William, e. May 23, 1863
Hill, William, e. May 23, 1863
Lewis, A. D., e. May 23, 1863
Malone, James, e. May 23, 1863
Malone, Ezekiel, e. May 23, 1863
Owen, Osborn, e. May 23, 1863
Richey, Henry, e. May 23, 1863
White, George, e. May 23, 1863
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