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11th U.S. Colored Infantry
Country United States
AllegianceUnion
BranchInfantry
SizeRegiment
EngagementsAmerican Civil War

Template:Infobox Arkansas Union Regiments

The 11th United States Colored Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was composed of African American enlisted men commanded by white officers and was authorized by the Bureau of Colored Troops which was created by the United States War Department on May 22, 1863.

Organization

The 11th US Colored Infantry was organized in Ft. Smith, Arkansas on December, 19, 1863. It was immediately attached to the 2nd Brigade in the District of the Frontier, as part of the 7th Corps, in the Dept. of Arkansas. It remained part of this corps till April 1865. The unit was recrutied from former slaves from Ft. Smith, Van Buren, Dripping Springs, Kibler, Alma and other local communities. In addition, several men who had been enslaved in nearby Choctaw Nation, heard about the opportunity to join and slipped into Arkansas and joined the 11th US Colored Infantry.[1]

Service

The first assignment of the 11th regiment was post and garrison duty, which was very ordinary and without much incident militarily. The unit remained at the Ft. Smith post till November 1864. In August of 1864, however, the unit was to become involved in battle in Ft. Smith. Coming out still with a Union foothold on Ft. Smith, these black soldiers remained at the military post till November, where they were moved eastward towards Little Rock. On January 24, 1865, the unit saw battle again at Boggs Mills. Sustaining injuries from both, as well as loss from disease, the unit went forward to Little Rock and Lewisburg, Arkansas till April.[1]

Mustered out of service

In late April 1865, after the surrender of Lee's army in Virginia, the unit was officially consolidated with the 112th and the 113th United States Colored Infantry to form the new 113th U.S. colored Troops on April 22, 1865. They were mustered out of the 113th USCT a year later, on April 9, 1866.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Angela Y. Walton-Raji, "Ft. Smith's Black Civil War Regiment, The 11th U.S. Colored Infantry", Arkansas Freedmen of the Frontier, Ft. Smith's Black History Site, Accessed 25 November 2013, http://www.african-nativeamerican.com/11th.html

Bibliography

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  • Bearss, Edwin Cole. Steele’s Retreat from Camden and the Battle of Jenkins’ Ferry. Little Rock: Arkansas Civil War Centennial Commission, 1967.
  • Burkhart, George S. Confederate Rage, Yankee Wrath: No Quarter in the Civil War. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007.
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  • Lause, Mark A. Race and Radicalism in the Union Army. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.
  • Nichols, Ronnie A. “Emancipation of Black Union Soldiers in Little Rock, 1863–1865.” Pulaski County Historical Review 61 (Fall 2013): 76–85.
  • Robertson, Brian K. “‘Will They Fight? Ask the Enemy’: United States Colored Troops at Big Creek, Arkansas, July 26, 1864.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 66 (Autumn 2007): 320–332.
  • Trudeau, Noah Andre. Like Men of War: Black Troops in the Civil War 1862–1865. Boston: Back Bay Books, 1999.
  • Urwin, Gregory J. W. Black Flag over Dixie: Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in the Civil War. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005.
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