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Well, there were many, let's see there was the:

54th Massachusetts

2nd SC Colored Infantry

1st Arkansas Infantry

United States Colored Troops.

This is all I can think of. I .

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Some local units would later be re-designated as US Colored Troops. There were at least 82 USCT Infantry, 14 colored Artillery regiments and 6 US colored cavalry regiments.

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