previous next

80th United States Colored Regiment Infantry.

Organized April 4, 1864, from 8th Corps de Afrique Infantry.

Attached to garrison at Port Hudson, La., Dept. of the Gulf, to April, 1864.

District of Bonnet Carre, La., Dept. of the Gulf, to July, 1864.

Transferred to 79th United States Colored Troops (New) July 6, 1864.

Reorganized July, 1864, by consolidation of 90th, 96th and 98th United States Colored Troops.

Attached to District of Bonnet Carre, Engineer Brigade, Dept. of the Gulf, to September, 1864.

2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, United States Colored Troops, Dept. of the Gulf, to February, 1865.

District of Bonnet Carre, La., Dept. of the Gulf, to April, 1865.

Defenses of New Orleans to June, 1865.

Northern District of Louisiana till January, 1866.


Service.

Duty at Port Hudson, La., till April 17, 1864, and in District of Bonnet Carre till April, 1865.

Scout from Bayou Goula to Grand River January 29-February 7, 1865.

At Carrollton, Camp Parapet and New Orleans till June 16.

At Shreveport and Alexandria, La., till January 1, 1866.

Moved to Texas and garrison duty at various points in that State till March, 1867.

Mustered out March 1, 1867.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: