4th United States Colored Cavalry Regiment information
4th United States Colored Cavalry 1st Cavalry, Corps d'Afrique
Colored troops at Port Hudson, Louisiana
Active
Sep. 12, 1863 – Mar. 20, 1866
Country
United States
Allegiance
Union
Branch
Cavalry
Type
Regiment
Engagements
American Civil War
Action at Olive Branch (1864)
Commanders
Colonel
James Grant Wilson
Lieutenant colonel
Julius Alexander Nathaniel Mitchell
Military unit
U.S. Cavalry Regiments
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