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States Colored Troops in the Civil War
 Each
soldier listed on our Wall of Honor has a service record on file at the National
Archives, located at 7th and Pennsylvania NW in Washington, DC. The service records
have information about the soldiers, which often includes a soldier's place of
enlistment and birth. These records are important resources for individuals searching
for an ancestor who served in the United States Colored Troops. The most detailed
records on our soldiers and their families are found in the Civil War pension
records, which are also found at the National Archives.
In the
Soldiers Index, you will find a brief unit history on each of the USCT regiments,
which are extracts from Dyer's Compendium. With the information found in
these extracts, you can map the movements of a regiment from when it was organized
to when it was deactivated. These extracts also list the battles and skirmishes
of the respective regiments. The following is a list of books written by soldiers
who served with the USCT or with a collection of their writings:
1.
A Grand Army of Black Men: Letters from African American Soldiers in the Union
Army 1861-1865 edited by Edwin S Redkey, Albert Gelpi, Ross Posnock
2.
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Higginson
3. The Black
Phalanx by Joseph T. Wilson
4. A History of the Negro Troops in
the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 by George Washington Williams
5.
Thank God My Regiment an African One: The Civil War Diary of Colonel Nathan W.
Daniels Edited by C. P. Weaver
6. A Brave Black Regiment: The History
of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1863-1865
by Louis Emilio
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