Statement of colored troops in the service of the United States October 31, 1863, compiled from the latest official reports.

Numbe

rs of Designation Commanding Strength.

regim officer.

ent.

1 1st U. S. Colored Troops Colonel John H. 990

Holman

2 2nd U. S. Colored Troops Lieutenant 800

Colonel Stark

Fellows

3 3rd U. S. Colored Troops Colonel B. C. 775

Tilghman

4 4th U. S. Colored Troops Colonel S. A. 1,002

Duncan

5 5th U. S. Colored Troops Colonel Lewis 750

McCoy

6 6th U. S. Colored Troops Colonel John W. 950

Ames

7 7th U. S. Colored Troops Colonel James 700

Shaw, jr.

8 8th U. S. Colored Troops

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500

9 1st Tennessee Volunteers Colonel E. 815

(African descent) Bouton

10 2nd Tennessee Volunteers Lieutenant 610

(African descent) Colonel John

Foley

11 3rd Tennessee Volunteers Colonel C. R. 976

(African descent) Thompson

12 1st Tennessee Heavy Colonel I. G. 960

Artillery (African Kappner

descent)

13 2nd Tennessee Heavy Colonel C. H. 594

Artillery (African Adams

descent).

14 1st Arkansas Volunteers (Colonel W. F. 663

African descent) Wood

15 2nd Arkansas Volunteers Colonel C. S. 334

(African descent) Sheley

16 3rd Arkansas Volunteers Colonel John 783

(African descent) Guylee

17 1st Kansas Volunteers Colonel J. M. 761

(African descent) Williams

18 2nd Kansas Volunteers Colonel S. J. 870

(African descent) Crawford

19 1st North Carolina Colonel J. C. 1,002

Volunteers (African Beecher

descent)

20 2nd North Carolina Colonel A. G. 800

Volunteers (African Drapper

descent)

21 3rd North Carolina

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Volunteers (African

descent)

22 1st South Carolina Colonel T. W. 662

Volunteers (African Higginson

descent)

23 2nd South Carolina Colonel James 552

Volunteers (African Montgomery

descent)

24 3rd South Carolina Colonel A. G. 370

Volunteers (African Bennett

descent)

25 4th South Carolina Colonel M. S. 100

Volunteers (African Littlefield

descent)

26 1st Alabama Volunteers Colonel James M. 890

(African descent) Alexander

27 2nd Alabama Volunteers

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80

(African descent)

28 1st Alabama Heavy

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325

Artillery (African

descent)

29 1st Mississippi Colonel I. F. 505

Volunteers (African Shepard

descent)

30 2nd Mississippi Colonel G. M. 455

Volunteeres (African Ziegler

descent)

31 3rd Mississippi Colonel R. H. 551

Volunteers (African Ballinger

descent)

32 6th Mississippi Colonel A. S. 860

Volunteers (African Smith

descent)

33 2nd Mississippi Heavy Colonel B. G. 515

Artillery (African Farrar

descent)

34 1st Louisiana Engineers Colonel Justin 847

(African descent) Hodge

35 2nd Louisiana Engineers Colonel John C. 535

(African descent) Cobb

36 1st Louisiana Navite Colonel S. H. 1,025

Guards (African descent) Stafford

37 2nd Louisiana Native

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612

Guards (African descent)

38 3rd Louisiana Native Lieutenant 981

Guards (African descent) Colonel H.

Finnegass

39 4th Louisiana Native Colonel C. W. 887

Guards (African descent) Drew

40 8th Louisiana Volunteers Colonel H. 696

(African descent) Scofield

41 9th Louisiana Volunteers Colonel H. Lieb 893

(African descent)

42 10th Louisiana Volunteers Colonel F. M. 803

(African descent) Crandal

43 11th Louisiana Volunteers Colonel E. W. 595

(African descent) Chamberlain

44 12th Louisiana Volunteers Colonel C. A. 670

(African descent) Gilchrist

45 20th Regiment Corps d" Lieutenant 211

Afrique Colonel A. E.

Buck

46 3rd Regiment Corps d" Major J. Langdon 582

Afrique Ward

47 6th Regiment Corps d" Colonel A. B. 442

Afrique Bottsford

48 7th Regiment Corps d" Lieutenant 357

Afrique Colonel James C.

Clark.

49 8th Regiment Corps d" Colonel Cyrus 390

Afrique Hamlin

50 9th Regiment Corps d" Colonel John F. 351

Afrique Appleton

51 10th Regiment Corps d" Lieutenant 606

Afrique Colonel L. L.

Zulavsky

52 11th Regiment Corps Major J. 420

d"Afrique Hutchings

53 12th Regiment Corps d" Lieutenant Dickey 412

Afrique

54 12th Regiment Corps

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422

d"Afrique

55 1st Louisiana Heavy Colonel Robert 830

Artillery (African G. Shaw

descent).

56 54th Massachusetts Colonel N. P. 993

Volunteers (African Hallowell

descent)

57 14th Rhode Island Heavy Colonel Nelson 900

Artillery (African Viall

descent)

58 1st Iowa Volunteers

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500

(African descent)

Recapitulation. - Fifty-eight regiments; total strength, 37,482.

Respectfully submitted.

C. W. FOSTER,

Assistant Adjutant-General of Volunteers