ORDERS No
ORDERS No. 7.] VICKSBURG, MISS., March 11, 1864.
All troops of African descent will hereafter be designated by numbers, and be reported by the number as regiments of U.S. cavalry, heavy artillery, light artillery, or infantry (colored). Those in the Department of the Tennessee will be numbered as follows, hereinafter. Those in the Department of the Gulf will be numbered as soon as complete returns of the same have been received. After the regiments have been designated in accordance with the above, under no circumstances whatever will any other number or denomination be given them.
CAVALRY.
First Regiment Mississippi Cavalry, of African descent, as the Third.
HEAVY ARTILLERY.
First Regiment Tennessee Heavy Artillery, of African descent, as the Second.
Second Regiment Tennessee Heavy Artillery, of African descent, as the Third.
First Regiment Mississippi Heavy Artillery, of African descent, as the Fourth.
Second Regiment Mississippi Heavy Artillery, of African descent, as the Fifth.
LIGHT ARTILLERY.
First, Second, and Third Louisiana Batteries, of African descent, as Batteries A, B, and C, Second.
The Memphis Light Battery, of African descent, as Company D, Second.
INFANTRY.
First Regiment Arkansas Volunteers, of African descent, as the Forty-sixth.
Eighth Regiment Louisiana Volunteers, of African descent, as the Forty-seventh.
Tenth Regiment of Louisiana Volunteers, of African descent, as the Forty-eighth.
Eleventh Regiment Louisiana Volunteers, of African descent, as the Forty-ninth.
Twelfth Regiment Louisiana Volunteers, of African descent, as the Fiftieth.
First Regiment Mississippi Volunteers, of African descent, as the Fifty-first.
Second Regiment of Mississippi Volunteers, of African descent, as the Fifty-second.
Third Regiment Mississippi Volunteers, of African descent, as the Fifty-third.
Second Regiment of Arkansas Volunteers, of African descent, as the Fifty-fourth.
First Regiment Alabama Volunteers, of African descent, as the Fifty-fifth.
Third Regiment Arkansas Volunteers, of African descent, as the Fifty-sixth.
Fourth Regiment Arkansas Volunteers, of African descent, as the Fifty-seventh.
Sixth Regiment Mississippi Volunteers, of African descent, as the Fifty-eighth.
First Regiment West Tennessee Volunteers, of African descent, as the Fifty-ninth.
First Regiment Iowa Volunteers, of African descent, as the Sixtieth.
Second Regiment West Tennessee Volunteers, of African descent, as the Sixty-first.
First Regiment Missouri Volunteers, of African descent, as the Sixty-second.
Ninth Regiment Louisiana Volunteers, of African descent, as the Sixty-third.
Seventh Regiment Louisiana Volunteers, of African descent, as the Sixty-fourth.
Second Regiment Missouri Volunteers, of African descent, as the Sixty-fifth.
Fourth Regiment Mississippi Volunteers, of African descent, as the Sixty-sixth.
Third Regiment Missouri Volunteers, of African descent, as the Sixty-seventh.
Fourth Regiment Missouri Volunteers, of African descent, as the Sixty-eighth.
By order of the Secretary of War:
L. THOMAS,
Adjutant-General.
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