Pennsylvania Civil War Union Colored Troops

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Pennsylvania enlisted about 8,612 men of color.

The information in this list of Pennsylvania Military Units comes from the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors web site (CWSS). That web site can also be searched by the name of a soldier.


 * Southard's Company, United States Colored Infantry (Pennsylvania) "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * 3rd Regiment, U.S.C.T. Organized at Camp William Penn, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 3-10, 1863. Mustered out October 31, 1865.


 * 6th Regiment, U.S.C.T. Organized at Camp William Penn near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 28, to September 12, 1863. Surrender of Johnston and his army. Duty in the Dept. of North Carolina until September. Mustered out September 20, 1865.


 * 8th Regiment, U.S.C.T. Organized at Camp William Penn, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 22 to December 4, 1863. Left Philadelphia for Hilton Head, South Carolina, January 16, 1864. Designation changed to 80th U.S. Colored Troops, April 4, 1864. Mustered out November 10, 1865. Discharged December 12, 1865.


 * 24th Regiment, U.S.C.T. Organized at Camp William Penn, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 30, to March 30, 1865. Mustered out October 1, 1865.


 * 25th Regiment, U.S.C.T. Organized at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 13, to February 12,1864. Designation changed to 93rd U.S. Colored Troops. April 4,1864. Mustered out December 6, 1865.


 * 32nd Regiment, U.S.C.T. Organized at Camp William Penn, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 17, to March 7, 1864. Mustered out August 22, 1865.


 * 41st Regiment, U.S.C.T. Organized at Camp William Penn, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 30, to December 7, 1864. Mustered out at Brownsville, Texas, November 10, 1865. Disbanded at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 14, 1865.


 * 43rd Regiment, U.S.C.T.


 * 45th Regiment, U.S.C.T.


 * 127th Regiment, U.S.C.T.