59th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry
Organized March 11, 1864, from 1st Tennessee Infantry (African Descent).
Attached to 1st Colored Brigade, District of Memphis, Tenn., Dept. of Tennessee,
to June, 1864. 3rd Brigade, Infantry Division, Sturgis' Expedition, to June,
1864. 1st Colored Brigade, District of Memphis, District of West Tennessee; to
February, 1865. Fort Pickering, Defences of Memphis, Tenn., District of West
Tennessee, to July, 1865. 2nd Brigade, District of West Tennessee, to September,
1865. Dept. of Tennessee to January, 1866.
SERVICE.-Post and garrison duty at Memphis, Tenn., till June, 1864. Sturgis'
Expedition from Memphis into Mississippi June 1-13. Battle of Brice's Cross
Roads, Guntown, June 10. Ripley June 11. Davis Mill June 12. Smith's Expedition
to Tupelo, Miss., July 5-21. Near Ripley July 7. Pontotoc July 11-12. Camargo's
Cross Roads, Harrisburg, July 13. Tupelo
July 14-15. Old Town Creek July 15. Post and garrison duty at Memphis, Tenn.,
and in District of West Tennessee till January, 1866. Repulse of Forest's attack
on Memphis August
21, 1864. Mustered out January 31, 1866.
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