7th Regiment Colored Infantry / 11th Regiment

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7th Regiment Colored Infantry / 11th Regiment

This regiment was organized at La Grange, Lafayette, and Memphis, Tenn., and Corinth, Mississippi, from June 20, 1863, to April 2, 1864, to serve three years, and designated the 1st regiment Alabama siege artillery, a.d. [African Descent.] Its designation was changed to 6th regiment U.S. colored heavy artillery March 11, 1864, to 7th regiment U.S. colored heavy artillery April 26, 1864, and to its present designation January 23, 1865. It was mustered out of service January 12, 1866.

Colonel

William D. Turner, 22 April 1864

Lieutenant Colonel

[not listed]

Major

U.G. Scheller de Buol, 16 March 1864

Captains

George W. Carlisle, 17 March 1864
Francis N. Marion, 6 May 1864
William C. Whitney, 8 July 1864
Samuel J. Atlee, 14 October 1865
Walter H. Fifield, 14 October 1865
John R. McDougall, 14 October 1865

First Lieutenants

John C. Malloy, 20 June 1864 (dismissed 25 January 1866)
Justus Canfield, 20 June 1864
Josiah W. Davis, 8 July 1864
Caleb Brinton, 14 October 1865
John S. Muzzy, 14 October 1865
Solomon F. Denton, 16 October 1865
Bethel M. Custer, 22 October 1865
John C. McKenny, 29 October 1865
Silas W. Gilbert, 2 November 1865
William N. Thomas, 6 November 1865

Second Lieutenants

George C. Davis, 9 August 1865
Charles W. Snyder, 9 August 1865

Surgeon

[not listed]

Assistant Surgeons

[not listed]

Chaplain

George W. Richardson, 25 May 1864

Additional Information on the th Regiment

First Lieutenant Julius H. Gurney, 2 March 1865, to Captain 88th U.S. C.T.

Captain William R. Story, 1 December 1864, to 1st U.S. colored heavy artillery

Captain J.B. Muller, 11 March 1864
Captain Charles J. Epeneter, 16 March 1865
Captain J.G. Crookham, 8 August 1865
First Lieutenant Malcolm F. Smith, 13 September 1865
Surgeon Reese P. Kendall, 23 October 1865

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas J. Jackson, 8 August 1865
Major George L. Paddock, 28 July 1865
Major John H. Baker, 16 August 1865
Captain William T. Smith, 28 April 1865
Captain Joseph C. Gates, 8 August 1865
Captain Thomas G. McRaven, 8 August 1865
Captain Luther J. WAshburn, 8 August 1865
First Lieutenant Daniel Vanhorn, 20 February 1865
First Lieutenant James M. Vaughn, 28 April 1865
First Lieutenant Peter Bischoff, 15 May 1865
First Lieutenant Willis B. Edson, 8 August 1865
First Lieutenant James L. Stevens, 8 August 1865
First Lieutenant Archibald Miles, 31 August 1865
Second Lieutenant Wilbur H. Gaylord, 28 March 1865
Second Lieutenant Nathan Shaddinger, 28 April 1865
Second Lieutenant Thomas W. McClure, 15 May 1865
Second Lieutenant Walter B. Appleby, 8 August 1865
Second Lieutenant Freeman R. Griswold, 8 August 1865
Second Lieutenant Richard R. Mates, 8 August 1865
Second Lieutenant H. B. Martin, 8 August 1865
Second Lieutenant Henry F. Weaver, 8 August 1865
Second Lieutenant A.J. Joslyn, 8 August 1865
Surgeon Francis M. Osborn, 13 July 1864
Assistant Surgeon Willard C. Kempton, 27 February 1865

Major L.F. Booth, killed in action at Fort Pillow, Tenn., 12 April 1864
Captain Delos Carson, killed in action at Fort Pillow, Tenn., 12 April 1864
Captain Nathaniel Reed, 24 August 1865, of disease at Memphis, Tenn.
First Lieutenant John D. Hill, killed in action at Fort Pillow, Tenn., 12 April 1864
Second Lieutenant Henry Lippett, 13 April 1864, of wounds received in action at Fort Pillow, Tenn.

Colonel James M. Alexander, 27 April 1864
First Lieutenant George A. Haskins, Adjutant, 27 May 1864

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