William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, Chapter 6: the Colored troops — history of their organization — their losses in battle and by disease., page 56

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Chapter 1 : the casualties of war — maximum of killed in Union regiments — maximum of percentages.

Chapter 2 : maximum of regimental loss in killed in any one battle — proportion of wounded to killed.

Chapter 3 : percentage of killed in regiments in particular battles — comparison of such losses with those of European regiments.

Chapter 4 : loss in officers — list of Generals killed — Surgeons and Chaplains killed.

Chapter 5 : casualties compared with those of European wars — loss in each arm of the service — deaths from disease — classification of deaths by causes.

Chapter 6 : the Colored troops — history of their organization — their losses in battle and by disease.

Chapter 7 : muster-out-rolls — Anthropological statistics.

Chapter 9 : famous divisions and brigades.

Chapter 11 : list of battles, with the regiments sustaining the greatest losses in each.

Chapter 12 : list of regiments and Batteries in the Union Armies with mortuary losses of each — the number killed and number of deaths from disease or other causes.

Chapter 13 : aggregate of deaths in the Union Armies by States--total enlistment by States--percentages of military population furnished, and percentages of loss — strength of the Army at various dates casualties in the Navy .

Chapter 14 : the greatest battles of the war — list of victories and defeats — chronological list of battles with loss in each, Union and Confederate.

Chapter 15 : Confederate losses — strength of the Confederate Armies --casualties in Confederate regiments — list of Confederate Generals killed — losses in the Confederate Navy .

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The Sixth had only 367 officers and men engaged, its loss being over 57 per cent. The troops in Paine's Division were the same ones which carried the works at Petersburg, June 15, 1864.

In the action on the Darbytown Road, Va., October 27, 1864, the Twenty-ninth Connecticut (colored) distinguished itself by the efficiency with which it held a skirmish line for several hours, under a strong pressure. Loss, 11 killed and 69 wounded.

Two brigades of colored troops participated in the victory at Nashville, December 15, 1864. The heaviest loss in any regiment on that field occurred in the Thirteenth U. S. Colored Infantry, which, in its assault on Overton Hill, lost 55 killed (including 4 officers), and 166 wounded;¹ total, 221.

The severest loss at the battle of Honey Hill, S. C., November 30, 1864, fell on a black regiment, the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts, which lost in that action, 29 killed, and 115 wounded; total, 144.

In the closing battle of the war — the victorious assault on Fort Blakely, Ala., April 9, 1865--a colored division bore a conspicuous and honorable part. Among the casualties in that engagement the following are worthy of note:

Regiment.	Killed.	Wounded.²	Missing	Total.
68th U. S. Colored Infantry	10	91	--	101
76th U. S. Colored Infantry	13	78	--	91

In addition to the battles heretofore mentioned, colored troops were prominently engaged in the following actions:

Morris Island. S. C.	James Island, S. C.	Liverpool Heights, Miss.
Yazoo City, Miss.	Pleasant Hill, La.	Prairie d'ann, Ark.
Poison Springs, Ark.	Camden, Ark.	Jenkins' Ferry, Ark.
Saline River, Ark.	Fort Pillow, Tenn.	Natural Bridge, Fla.
Morganzia, La.	Jacksonville, Fla.	Brice's X Roads, Miss.
Tupelo, Miss.	Athens, Ala.	Drewry's Bluff, Va.
Bermuda Hundred, Va.	Dutch Gap, Va.	Deep Bottom, Va.
Darbytown Road, Va.	Hatcher's Run, Va.	Fair Oaks, Va. (1864）
Saltville, Va.	Deveaux Neck, S. C.	Boykin's Mills, S. C.
Cox's Bridge, N. C.	Fort Fisher, N. C.	Wilmington, N. C.
Spanish Fort, Ala.	Fall of Richmond.	Appomattox, Va.

They rendered effective and meritorious services in many of these engagements, and, in some of them, sustained serious losses.

1 Includes the mortally wounded.

2 Includes the mortally wounded.

1888.

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