30th United States Colored Troops

United States Regiments & Batteries * United States Colored Troops

The 30th Infantry Regiment, United States Colored Troops lost 3 officers and 48 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 177 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1864
February 12 – March 18 Organized at Camp Stanton, Md.
March Attached to 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 9th Corps, Army of the Potomac
May-June

Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River, Va.

Guarded trains of the Army of the Potomac through the Wilderness and to Petersburg.
June 15-18
First Assault on Petersburg
June 16 –
December 7

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-October 1 Poplar Grove Church
October 27-28 Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher’s Run
December 7-27

1st Expedition to Fort Fisher, N. C.

Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 25th Corps, then 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 25th Corps.
1865
January 7-15

2nd Expedition to Fort Fisher, N. C.
January 13-15
Bombardment of Fort Fisher
January 15
Assault and capture of Fort Fisher
January 19
Sugar Loaf Hill
February 11
Federal Point
February 18-20
Fort Anderson
February 22
Capture of Wilmington, Northeast Ferry
March 1-April 26

Campaign of the Carolinas

Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 10th Corps, Dept. of North Carolina
March 6-21 Advance on Kinston and Goldsboro
March 23-24 Action at Cox’s Bridge
April 9-14
Advance on Raleigh
April 14 Occupation of Raleigh
April 26
Bennett’s House

Surrender of Johnston and his army.
May-December Duty at various points in North Carolina
December 10 Mustered out