United States Regiments & Batteries * United States Colored Troops
The 43rd United States Colored Troops lost 3 officers and 48 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 188 enlisted men by disease during the Civil War.
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1864
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| March 12 to June 3 | Organized at Philadelphia, Pa. |
| April 18 | Moved to Annapolis, Md. Attached to 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 9th Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| May-June | Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River, Va. Guard trains of the Army of the Potomac through the Wilderness and to Petersburg. |
| June 15-19 | First Assault on Petersburg |
| June 16 – April 2 | Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond |
| July 30 | Mine Explosion, Petersburg |
| August 18-21 | Weldon Railroad |
| September | Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Corps |
| September 29-30 & October 1 | Poplar Grove Church |
| October 27-28 | Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher’s Run |
| November | On the Bermuda Hundred front and before Richmond |
| December | Attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 25th Corps |
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1865
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| January | Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 25th Corps |
| March 27-28 | Moved to Hatcher’s Run |
| 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 at Petersburg and City Point |
| May 30-June 10 | Moved to Texas |
| June-October | Duty on the Rio Grande opposite Mattamoras, Mexico |
| October 20 | Mustered out |
| November 30 | Discharged at Philadelphia, Pa. |