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UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS - CIVIL WAR *** Brief Notes and Links *** Researched and compiled by Bennie J. McRae, Jr. Updated: May 26, 2001 NOTE: See CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS SYSTEM update below. VISIT THE HOMEPAGE OF THE UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS IN THE CIVIL WAR UNITS ORGANIZED: 1 - LIGHT ARTILLERY REGIMENT 7 - CAVALRY REGIMENTS 13 - HEAVY ARTILLERY REGIMENTS 144 - INFANTRY REGIMENTS ...

Records of the 105th. U.S. Colored Troops Organized at Charleston, South Carolina Spring and Summer of 1865 Transcribed by A. Donald Kelmers Comments and HTML coding by William Hamilton Contents Background including prior service of Officers. Preparations for Organizing a Charleston U.S.C.T. Regiment, March 16, 1865 Red Tape in the Army A missing report is demanded, April 7, 1865 Southern ...

Home African-American soldiers numbering approximately one hundred and eighty thousand - nine percent of the North's fighting force - fought for the Union Army during the Civil War. Of the men in the United States Colored Infantry, 29 were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor while thousands died in combat and thousands more died from disease. One of the fiercest battles of the Civil War was ...

More than 5, 000 former slaves and freedmen from South Carolina served in five infantry regiments and one artillery battery.

Palmito Ranch is considered the last battle of the Civil War. Of course there has be a last battle in every war, but this one did not have to evolve my grandfather's regiment, the 62nd Regiment U.S. Colored Infantry.

Prematurely tested under fire, the exslaves, who made up the ranks of the 101st Regiment U.S.Colored Infantry, proved themselves to be men of courage. As an escaped slave, my Great-grandfather Henry Parker, who later became a sergeant in the Buffalo Soldiers, helped make up the ranks of these brave men of war.

The Civil War Archive Union Regimental Histories Corps De Afrique 1st Regiment Cavalry Organized at New Orleans, La., September 12, 1863. Attached to Defenses of New Orleans, La., to April, 1864. Designation of Regiment changed to 4th United States Colored Cavalry April 4, 1864. 1st Regiment Heavy Artillery Organized November 19, 1863, from 1st Louisiana Colored Heavy Artillery. Garrison ...

37th United States Colored Troops - Recruits (Originally the 3d Regiment NC Colored Infantry) Involved in the Battle of Plymouth, NC Men were being recruited for the USCTs in the area of Plymouth, NC before the Battle of Plymouth took place on April 17-20th, 1864. A complete list of the men who were involved in the battle is not known, but through the research of the Civil War Plymouth Pilgrims ...

Civil War African-American Medal Of Honor Recipients The President of the United States in the name of the Congress takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to: KELLY, ALEXANDER Rank and Organization: First Sergeant, Company F, 6th U.S. Colored Troops. Place and Date: At Chapins Farm, Va., 29 September 1864. Birth: Pennsylvania. Date of Issue: 6 April 1865. Citation: Gallantly seized the ...