List of Commissioned Officers
36th Regiment, U. S. Colored Troops


Company I

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NAME John M. Smith
RANK Capt.
DATE OF APPOINTMENT July 14/1863
REMARKS Mustered into service Aug.16/63. Newbern N.C. Lt.Horton.

Promoted from Sergt. U.S. Marine Corps.

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NAME Hiram W. Allen
RANK 1st Lt.
DATE OF APPOINTMENT
REMARKS Mustered into service Aug. 13/63 Newbern N.C. Lt. Jarvis.
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NAME James B. Backuss
RANK 2nd Lt.
DATE OF APPOINTMENT July 14/1863
REMARKS Mustered into service Aug. 13/63 Norfolk Va. Capt. Gould.

Promoted from Private Co. B. 39th Regt. Mass Vols.

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NAME Richard F. Andrews
RANK Capt.
DATE OF APPOINTMENT Oct. 21/1864
REMARKS Transferred from Co. D.

Promoted to First Lt.

Severely wounded at Chaffin's Farm Va.

Promoted to Capt. Oct. 21/1864.

Dishcarged the service 1864.

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NAME Warren Peirce
RANK 2nd Lt.
DATE OF APPOINTMENT April 26/1864
REMARKS Promoted 1st Lt.

App'd Rgtl A of T. Gen. Rgtl O. No 28

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NAME Jas W. Bacon
RANK 2nd Lt.
DATE OF APPOINTMENT
REMARKS
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NAME Elijah H. Wheeler
RANK 2nd Lt.
DATE OF APPOINTMENT Dec. 30/1864
REMARKS Mustered into service to date Jan. 1st 1865.
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NAME H. N. Thorborn
RANK 1st Lieut.
DATE OF APPOINTMENT Dec. 30/1864
REMARKS Transfereed to Co. "D" S.R.O. No.50. Mar 6 1865.
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NAME Warren Peirce
RANK 1st Lieut.
DATE OF APPOINTMENT
REMARKS Transferred from Regtl Staff. S.R.O. No 50. Mar. 6 1865.
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NAME Elijah H. Wheeler
RANK 1st Lieut.
DATE OF APPOINTMENT Aug. 2/1865
REMARKS Mustered to date Sept. 4, 1865.

Transferred to Co. B. S.R.O. No.? C.S.

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NAME James Downing
RANK 2nd Lieut
DATE OF APPOINTMENT Aug. 2/1865
REMARKS Mustered to date Sept. 18, 1865.

Promoted from Sergt. Co. M, 1st Mass. H.Q.

Taken pris. 22d June/64 in first of Petersburg Va.--made his escape by jumping from a train of cars 6 months after capture.


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