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Appendix A

United States Colored Troops

and

States of Organization*

During the Civil War

Infantry Units

1st Infantry District of Columbia

2d Infantry Virginia

3d Infantry Pennsylvania

4th Infantry Maryland

5th Infantry Ohio

6th Infantry Pennsylvania

7th Infantry Maryland

8th Infantry Pennsylvania

9th Infantry Maryland

10th Infantry Virginia

11th Infantry (old) Arkansas

11th Infantry (new) Alabama

12th Infantry Tennessee

13th Infantry Tennessee

14th Infantry Tennessee

15th Infantry Tennessee

16th Infantry Tennessee

17th Infantry Tennessee

18th Infantry Missouri

19th Infantry Maryland

20th Infantry New York

21st Infantry South Carolina

22d Infantry Pennsylvania

23d Infantry Virginia

24th Infantry Pennsylvania

25th Infantry Pennsylvania

26th Infantry New York

27th Infantry Ohio

28th Infantry Indiana

29th Infantry Illinois

* The State of Organization does not mean that all the troops were recruited solely from that state. 

For example, the soldiers of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts came from many northeastern states, 

include New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
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30th Infantry Maryland

31st Infantry New York

32d Infantry Pennsylvania

33d Infantry South Carolina

34th Infantry South Carolina

35th Infantry North Carolina

36th Infantry North Carolina

37th Infantry North Carolina

38th Infantry Virginia

39th Infantry Maryland

40th Infantry Tennessee

41st Infantry (one battalion) Pennsylvania

42d Infantry Tennessee

43d Infantry Pennsylvania

44th Infantry Georgia

45th Infantry Pennsylvania

46th Infantry Arkansas

47th Infantry Louisiana

48th Infantry Louisiana

49th Infantry Louisiana

50th Infantry Louisiana

51st Infantry Mississippi

52d Infantry Mississippi

53d Infantry Mississippi

54th Infantry Arkansas

55th Infantry Alabama

56th Infantry Arkansas

57th Infantry Arkansas

58th Infantry Mississippi

59th Infantry Tennessee

60th Infantry Iowa

61st Infantry Tennessee

62d Infantry Missouri

63d Infantry Louisiana

64th Infantry Louisiana

65th Infantry Missouri

66th Infantry Mississippi

67th Infantry Missouri

68th Infantry Missouri

69th Infantry Arkansas

70th Infantry Mississippi
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71st Infantry Mississippi

72d Infantry Kentucky

73d Infantry Louisiana

74th Infantry Louisiana

75th Infantry Louisiana

76th Infantry Louisiana

77th Infantry Louisiana

78th Infantry Louisiana

79th Infantry (old) Louisiana

79th Infantry (new) Kansas

80th Infantry Louisiana

81st Infantry Louisiana

82d Infantry Louisiana

83d Infantry (old) Louisiana

83d Infantry (new) Kansas

84th Infantry Louisiana

85th Infantry Louisiana

86th Infantry Louisiana

87th Infantry (old) Louisiana

87th Infantry (new) Louisiana

88th Infantry (old) Louisiana

88th Infantry (new) Tennessee

89th Infantry Louisiana

90th Infantry Louisiana

91st Infantry Louisiana

92d Infantry Louisiana

93d Infantry Louisiana

95th Infantry Louisiana

96th Infantry Louisiana

97th Infantry Louisiana

98th Infantry Louisiana

99th Infantry (one battalion) Louisiana

100th Infantry Kentucky

101st Infantry Tennessee

102d Infantry Michigan

103d Infantry South Carolina

104th Infantry South Carolina

106th Infantry Alabama

107th Infantry Kentucky

108th Infantry Kentucky

109th Infantry Kentucky
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110th Infantry Alabama

111th Infantry Alabama

112th Infantry Arkansas

113th Infantry (old) Arkansas

113th Infantry (new) Arkansas

114th Infantry Kentucky

115th Infantry Kentucky

116th Infantry Kentucky

117th Infantry Kentucky

118th Infantry Kentucky

119th Infantry Kentucky

120th Infantry Kentucky

121st Infantry Kentucky

122d Infantry (one battalion) Kentucky

123d Infantry Kentucky

124th Infantry Kentucky

125th Infantry Kentucky

127th Infantry Battalion Pennsylvania

128th Infantry South Carolina

135th Infantry North Carolina

136th Infantry Georgia

137th Infantry Georgia

138th Infantry Georgia

54th Massachusetts (Infantry) Massachusetts

55th Massachusetts (Infantry) Massachusetts

29th Connecticut (Infantry) Connecticut

6th Louisiana (Infantry) Louisiana

7th Louisiana (Infantry) Louisiana

Alpha Company (unassigned) Virginia

Alpha Company (independent) Pennsylvania

Artillery Units

1st Heavy Artillery Tennessee

3d Heavy Artillery Tennessee

4th Heavy Artillery Mississippi

5th Heavy Artillery Mississippi

6th Heavy Artillery Mississippi

8th Heavy Artillery Kentucky & Rhode Is.

9th Heavy Artillery Tennessee

10th Heavy Artillery Louisiana
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11th Heavy Artillery Rhode Island

12th Heavy Artillery Kentucky

13th Heavy Artillery Kentucky

14th Heavy Artillery North Carolina

2d Light Artillery 

Alpha Battery Tennessee

Bravo Battery Virginia

Charlie Battery Louisiana

Delta Battery Louisiana

Echo Battery Louisiana

Fox-trot Battery Tennessee

Golf Battery South Carolina

Hotel Battery Arkansas

India Battery Tennessee

Independent Battery Kansas

Cavalry Units

1st Cavalry Virginia

2d Cavalry Virginia

3d Cavalry Mississippi

4th Cavalry Louisiana

5th Cavalry Kentucky

6th Cavalry Kentucky

5th Massachusetts Color Cavalry Massachusetts
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