United States Regiments & Batteries * United States Colored Troops
The 23rd Regiment United States Colored Troops lost 4 officers and 82 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 165 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1863
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| November 23- June 30 |
Organized at Camp Casey, Va. |
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1864
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| April | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 9th Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| May and June | Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River, Va. Guarding wagon trains Army of the Potomac through the Wilderness. |
| June 15-18 | First Assault on Petersburg |
| June 16 – April 2 |
Siege of Petersburg and Richmond |
| July 30 | Mine Explosion, Petersburg |
| August 18-21 | Weldon Railroad |
| September | Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Corps |
| September 28 | Fort Sedgwick |
| September 29-30 | Poplar Grove Church |
| October 27-28 | Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher’s Run |
| December 13 | Bermuda Hundred |
| December | Duty on the Bermuda Hundred front assigned to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 25th Corps |
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1865
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| March 28-April 9 | Appomattox Campaign |
| March 29-31 | Hatcher’s Run |
| April 2 | Fall of Petersburg |
| April 3-9 | Pursuit of Lee |
| April 9 |
Appomattox Court HouseSurrender of Lee and his army. |
| April-May | Duty in Dept. of Virginia |
| May-June | Moved to Texas |
| June-November | Duty at Brownsville and along the Rio Grande, Texas assigned to Dept. of Texas |
| November 30 | Mustered out |