12th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry
Organized in Tennessee at large July 24 to August 14, 1863. Attached to
Defences of Nashville Camp; Northwestern Railroad, Dept. of the Cumberland, to
October, 1864. 2nd Colored Brigade, District of the Etowah, Dept. of the
Cumberland, to January, 1865. Defences of Nashville Camp; Northwestern Railroad,
District of Middle Tennessee, to May, 1865. 3rd Sub-District, District Middle
Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to January, 1866.
SERVICE.-Railroad guard duty at various points in Tennessee and Alabama on line
of the Nashville Camp; Northwestern Railroad till December, 1864. Repulse of
Hood's attack on Johnsonville
November 2, 4 and 5. Action at Buford's Station, Section 37, Nashville Camp;
Northwestern Railroad, November 24. March to Clarksville, Tenn., and skirmish
near that place December 2. Battle of Nashville
December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28. Action at
Decatur, Ala., December 27-28. Railroad guard and garrison duty in the Dept. of
the Cumberland till January, 1866.
Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 38 Enlisted men killed and mortally
wounded and 242 Enlisted men by disease. Total 284.
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