MISSISSIPPI'S UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS
in the
CIVIL WAR

The First Mississippi Volunteer Infantry (AD)
(Civil War Researchers and Re-enactors)
P. O. Box 691701
Jackson, MS 39269

E-mail: Norman.Fisher@juno.com

Dedicated to the memory of almost 18,000 Black soldiers from Mississippi that served in the Union Army; countless thousands of men and women (Contrabands) who escaped slavery or were liberated that worked for the Union Army as scouts, spies, nurses, teamsters, cooks, servants, blacksmiths, etc.; and thousands of men, women and children who were not able to escape the bondage of slavery and were not freed until the end of the war or after ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.

- Members of the 1st Mississippi Infantry (AD) - (51st U.S.C.I.)

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MILITARY UNITS ORGANIZED IN MISSISSIPPI

UNIT - PLACE OF ORGANIZATION - ORIGINAL DESIGNATION

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3RD U.S. COLORED CAVALRY REGIMENT - Vicksburg, Mississippi - 1st Mississippi Cavalry (African Descent)

5TH U.S. COLORED HEAVY ARTILLERY - Vicksburg, Mississippi - 1st Mississippi Heavy Artillery (African Descent)  

6TH U.S. COLORED HEAVY ARTILLERY - Natchez, Mississippi - 2nd Mississippi Heavy Artillery (African Descent)  

7TH U.S. COLORED COLORED HEAVY ARTILLERY
SEE 11TH U.S. COLORED INFANTRY REGIMENT (NEW) - La Grange, Lafayette, Memphis, Tennessee and Corinth, Mississippi - 1st Alabama Siege Artillery (African Descent)  

BATTERY C, 2ND U.S. COLORED LIGHT ARTILLERY - Hebron's Plantation, Mississippi - 1st Louisiana Battery (African Descent)

BATTERY D,  2ND U.S. COLORED LIGHT ARTILLERY - Black River Bridge, Mississippi - 2nd Louisiana Battery (African Descent)

11TH U.S. COLORED INFANTRY (NEW) - La Grange, Lafayette, Memphis, Tennessee and Corinth, Mississippi - 7th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery

51ST U.S. COLORED INFANTRY REGIMENT - Milliken's Bend, Louisiana and Vicksburg, Mississippi - 1st Mississippi Infantry (African Descent) 

52ND U.S. COLORED INFANTRY REGIMENT - Vicksburg, Mississippi - 2nd Mississippi Infantry (African Descent)  

53RD U.S. COLORED INFANTRY REGIMENT - Warrentown, Mississippi - 3rd Mississippi Infantry (African Descent)

55TH U.S. COLORED INFANTRY REGIMENT - Corinth, Mississippi - 1st Alabama Infantry (African Descent)

58TH U.S. COLORED INFANTRY REGIMENT - Natchez, Mississippi - 6th Mississippi Infantry (African Descent)

63RD U.S. COLORED INFANTRY REGIMENT - Memphis and Island No. 10, Tennessee, Vicksburg, Mississippi and Goodrich's Landing, Louisiana - 9th Louisiana Infantry (African Descent)

66TH U.S. COLORED INFANTRY REGIMENT - Vicksburg, Mississippi - 4th Mississippi Infantry (African Descent)

70TH U.S. COLORED INFANTRY REGIMENT - Natchez, Mississippi  

71ST U.S. COLORED INFANTRY REGIMENT - Black River Bridge and Natchez, Mississippi, and Alexandria, Louisiana

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