Alfred Map[p]
Corporal Company B 9th U.S. Colored Infantry
DESCRIPTION:
Age: 20 Height: 5 feet 7 3/8 inches Complexion: Black
Eyes: Black Hair: Black Place of Birth: Accomack County, VA
Occupation: Farmer
ENLISTMENT:
When: November 7, 1863
Where: Locust Mount, Accomack County, VA
By Whom: Colonel William Birney Term: 3 Years
Mustered-In: November 11, 1863 at Camp Stanton, Benedict, Charles County, MD.
REMARKS:
Mustered-out November 26, 1866 at New Orleans, LA
SERVICE INFORMATION (Summary):
- Promoted to Sargent from Corporal on January 25, 1864
- Sent to general hospital Beaufort, SC. on March 13, 1864
- Detailed as a sharpshooter on January 16, 1865
- Inaction with Company Johns Island, SC, Deep Bottom, VA, & Chaffin’s Farm, VA
- Reduced in rank May 4, 1866 to Private. Court Marshall on charges of (1) General Disobedience of Orders, (2) Absence without Leave, (3) Disrespectful Language to 1st Sargent, and (4) Neglect of Duty and Improper Conduct.
9th Regiment Infantry (http://civilwararchive.com/unioncol.htm)
Organized at Camp Stanton, Md., November 11-30, 1863. Duty at Benedict, Md., until March, 1864. Moved to Port Royal, S.C., March 3-7. Attached to District of Hilton Head, S.C., Dept. of the South, to April, 1864. District of Beaufort, S.C., Dept. of the South, to August, 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 10th Corps, Army of the James, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to December, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 25th Corps, to January, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 25th Corps, to January, 1866. Dept. of Texas to November, 1866.
SERVICE.--Duty at Hilton Head, S.C., until April, 1864, and at Port Royal Island, S.C., until June. Ashepoo Expedition May 24-27. Expedition to Johns and James Islands June 30-July 10. Engaged July 7 and 9. Duty at Beaufort, S.C., until August. Moved to Bermuda Hundred, Va., August 4-8. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond August, 1864, to April, 1865. Demonstration on north side of James River August 13-18. Skirmishes at Deep Bottom August 14-15. Russell's Mills August 16. Moved to Bermuda Hundred front August 18, thence to Petersburg August 24, and duty in trenches until September 26. Demonstration on north side of James September 26-30. Battle of Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights, September 28-30. Fort Gilmer September 29. Darbytown Road October 13. Battle of Fair Oaks October 27-28. In trenches before Richmond until April, 1865. Occupation of Richmond April 3. Duty at Richmond, Petersburg and City Point until June. Moved to Brazos Santiago, Texas, June 7-July 1, thence to Brownsville, Duty at Brownsville and on the Rio Grande, Texas, until October, 1866. Ordered to New Orleans, La., October 2. Mustered out November 20, 1866.
Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 46 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 266 Enlisted men by disease. Total 315..
GENEALOGY: Other than Alfred’s Civil War service records, I could not find any information concerning him in the US Census, Virginia Marriage/Birth/Death records or any other records.
