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REGIMENTAL SERVICE RECORDS
for the
1st NORTH CAROLINA COLORED VOLUNTEERS /
35th UNITED STATES COLORED INFANTRY
COMMANDS: [ 1st NCCV ]
June 30, 1863 - Organized at New Berne, NC and Portsmouth, VA.
To December, 1863 - Attached to Wild’s African Brigade, US Forces, Folly Island, SC, 10th Army Corps, Dept. of the South.
To February, 1864 - 3rd Brigade, Vodge’s Division, Folly Island, SC.
February 8, 1864 - Redesignated the 35th U.S. Colored Infantry.
COMMANDS: [ 35th USCT ]
February 8, 1864 - Organized from 1st North Carolina Colored Infantry.
February, 1864 - Attached to Montgomery's Brigade, District of Florida, Dept. of the South.
To April, 1864 - 2nd Brigade, Vodges' Division, District of Florida, Dept. of the South.
To October, 1864 - District of Florida, Dept. of the South.
To November, 1864 - 4th Separate Brigade, Dept. of the South.
To December, 1864 - 2nd Brigade, Coast Division, Dept. of the South.
To March, 1865 - 4th Separate Brigade, Dept. of the South.
To August, 1865 - 1st Separate Brigade, Dept. of the South.
To June 1, 1866 - Dept. of the South - Mustered Out of Service.
SERVICE: [ 1st NCCV ]
July 29 - August 9, 1863 - Transferred from Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina to Folly Island, SC.
To February, 1864 - Operations on Folly and Morris Islands against Fort Sumter and Charleston, SC.
[ July 3 - December 30, 1863 - A detachment at New Berne, NC which participated in: ]
July 3-7, 1863 - Raid on Wilmington & Weldon Railroad;
October 30, 1863 - Fort Mill near New Berne, NC;
November 25 - December 30, 1863 - Near Greenville, NC.[ December 5-24, 1863 - A detachment at Portsmouth, VA which participated in: ]
Expedition to South Mill, Camden, NC, etc.)
February 8, 1864 - Designation of Regiment changed to 35th US Colored Troops.
February 13-16, 1864 - Moved to Jacksonville, FL.
SERVICE: [ 35th USCT ]
February 14-22, 1864 - Expedition to Lake City, FL.
February 20, 1864 - Battle of Olustee, FL.
February - November, 1864 - Duty at Jacksonville, FL.
May 19-27, 1864 - Operations on St. Johns River, FL.
May23, 1864 - Horse Head Landing, FL.
July, 1-10, 1864 - Four Companies detached on Expedition to James Island, SC.
July 3, 1864 - King's Creek, SC.
July 23-28, 1864 - Raid from Jacksonville upon Baldwin, FL.
July 24, 1864 - South Fork, Black Creek, FL.
July 27, 1864 - Black Creek near Whitesides, FL.
August 15-19, 1864 - Raid on Florida Railroad.November 25, 1864 - Ordered from Jacksonville to Hilton Head, SC.
November 28-30, 1864 - Expedition to Boyd's Neck, SC.
November 30, 1864 - Battle of Honey Hill, SC.
December, 1864 - March, 1865 - Return to Jacksonville, FL.
March, 1865 - June, 1866 - To Charleston, SC.
Duty there & various points in the Dept. of the South.
June 1, 1866 - Mustered Out at Charleston, South Carolina.
Regiment lost during service:
4 Officers and 49 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 151 Enlisted men by disease. Total 205.Source: Frederick H. Dyer. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Vol. 2. Dayton, OH: Morningside, 1979. p. 1472 and p. 1729.
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