64th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry
Organized March 11, 1864, from 7th Louisiana Infantry (African Descent).
Attached to 1st Division, Unassigned, United States Colored Troops, District of
Vicksburg, Miss., to May, 1864. District of Natchez, Miss., District of
Vicksburg, Miss., to September, 1864. Davis' Bend, Miss., District of Vicksburg,
Miss., to December, 1864. Unattached, 1st Division, United States Colored
Troops, District of Vicksburg, Miss., to February, 1865. Post of Vicksburg and
Dept. of Mississippi, to March, 1866.
SERVICE.-Post and garrison duty at Vicksburg, Miss., till May, 1864. Actions at
Ashwood Landing, La., May 1 and 4. Post and garrison duty at Davis' Bend and
Natchez, Miss., till February, 1865. Action at Davis' Bend June 2, 1864. Point
Pleasant June 25. Davis' Bend June 29. (Pine Bluff, Ark., July 2, 1864. Helena,
Ark., August 2, 1864, as a Detachment.) Duty at Vicksburg, Miss., till April,
1865. At Davis' Bend and in the Dept. of Mississippi till March, 1866. Mustered
out March 13, 1866.
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