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- Portrait of Lieutenant Andrew Coats, 7th Colored Infantry Regiment, 1864 - Scottish-born Andrew Coats was a Lieutenant in the 7th U.S. Colored Infantry. The regiment, organized in September 1863, first deployed to the occupied coastal territories stretching from South Carolina to Florida. This photograph was taken after he arrived in 1864. Coats served as Acting Assistant Adjutant General (AAAG) for the District of Florida, before joining the Veteran Reserve Corps in late 1864.
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Portrait of Lieutenant Andrew Coats, 7th Colored Infantry Regiment, 1864
Scottish-born Andrew Coats was a Lieutenant in the 7th U.S. Colored Infantry. The regiment, organized in September 1863, first deployed to the occupied coastal territories stretching from South Carolina to Florida. This photograph was taken after he arrived in 1864. Coats served as Acting Assistant Adjutant General (AAAG) for the District of Florida, before joining the Veteran Reserve Corps in late 1864.