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8th California Infantry Regiment

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Country
  
United States

Branch
  
Infantry

Allegiance
  
Union

Active
  
March 31, 1865 to October 24, 1865

The 8th Regiment California Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It spent its entire term of service in the western United States, serving in posts around San Francisco Bay, and on the Columbia River., attached to the Department of the Pacific.

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8th California Regiment of Infantry Commander

  • Colonel Allen L. Anderson

    • Company assignments

  • Company A This company was raised at Watsonville, California by Captain Claremont C. Smith, and was mustered into the United States service November 17, 1864. It was stationed at Fort Point, San Francisco, until February, 1865; then at Cape Disappointment, mouth of the Columbia River, Washington Territory, until August 17, 1865; then at Fort Dalles in Oregon, during the balance of its term of service, and was mustered out at Fort Point, California, October 24, 1865.
  • Company B
  • Company D
  • Company E
  • Company F
  • Company G
  • Company H
  • Company I
  • Company K

    • References

    8th California Infantry Regiment Wikipedia
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