Category: 42nd Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, United States Civil War

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42nd Regiment, United States Colored Infantry Organized at Chattanooga, Tenn., and Nashville, Tenn., April 20, 1864. Attached to District of Chattanooga, Dept. of the Cumberland, to November, 1864. Unattached, District of the Etowah, Dept. of the Cumberland, to December, 1864. 1st Colored Brigade, District of the Etowah, to January, 1865. Unattached, District of the Etowah, to March, 1865. 1st Colored Brigade, Dept. of the Cumberland, to July, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, District of East Tennessee, July, 1865. Dept. of Georgia to January, 1866.

Service:Guard and garrison duty at Chattanooga, Tenn., in District of East Tennessee, and in Dept. of the Cumperland, and Dept. of Georgia during entire term. Mustered out January 31, 1866.


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abt 1840 Harrison County, Kentucky, United States - 13 Jan 1866
abt 1839 Harrison County, Kentucky, United States - abt 14 May 1865
abt 1840 Tennessee, United States - bef 1892
05 Jul 1812 Orange, Virginia, United States - abt 06 Jan 1913
abt Feb 1847 Sautee Nacoochee, White, Georgia, United States - bef 1910
abt 1843 Georgia, United States - 1900




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