United States Regiments & Batteries * United States Colored Troops
The 31st Regiment United States Colored Troops lost 3 officers and 48 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 123 enlisted men to disease during the Cvil War.
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1864
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| April 29 | Organized at Hart’s Island, N.Y. |
| May | Attached to 2nd 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. |
| June 2-12 | Battles about Cold Harbor |
| June 15-19 | Before Petersburg |
| June 16 – April 2 | Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond |
| July 30 | Mine Explosion, Petersburg |
| August 18-21 | Weldon Railroad |
| September | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Corps |
| September 28 | Fort Sedgwick |
| October 27-28 | Hatcher’s Run |
| November-March | On the Bermuda front |
| December | Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 25th Corps |
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1865
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| March 26-28 | 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 House. Surrender of Lee and his army. |
| April-May | Duty in the Dept. of Virginia |
| May-June | Moved to Texas, and duty on the Rio Grande assigned to Dept. of Texas. |
| November 7 | Mustered out |