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21st Infantry Regiment
United States Colored Troops
Officers of the 21st USCT

Listing, by rank and name, of officers who served with the 21st regiment

NPS - CWSS
NPS - CWSS

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Regimental History

Regimental history of the 3rd South Carolina Infantry Regiment-African Descent, predessor to the 21st USCT

Regimental History

Regimental history of the 4th South Carolina Infantry Regiment-African Descent, predessor to the 21st USCT
Organized from the 3rd, 4th and 5th Regiments, South Carolina Colored Infantry, March 14, 1864. Attached to the 3rd Brigade, Vogdes' Division, District of Florida, Department of the South, to April, 1864. Morris Island, S.C., Northern District, Department of the South, to October, 1864. 1st Separate Brigade, Department of the South, to February, 1865. Garrison of Charleston, S.C., Department of the South, to August 1865. Department of the South, to October, 1865.

SERVICE - Duty at Jacksonville, Florida, until April, 1864. Moved to Hilton Head, S.C., then to Folly Island, S.C., April 18. Duty on Folly Island, Morris Island and Coles Island, operating against Charleston, S.C., June 30 - July 10. Action on James Island, July 2. Occupation of Charleston and Mt. Pleasant, S.C., until august, 1865., and at various points in South Carolina and Georgia until October, 1866. Mustered out, [April 25, 1866].

Source: Dyer's Compendium, p. 1727

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