Black Union Troops

Black Confederates - Encyclopedia Virginia

In December 1863, Confederate general Patrick R. Cleburne wrote a memorandum advocating the emancipation and enlistment of Black men as Confederate soldiers. He ...

How Black Union troops were "the fathers of Juneteenth" - CBS News

"We had over 10,000 U.S. Colored troops in Galveston, Texas, here to help tell that story, so they truly are the fathers of Juneteenth," Jordan ...

Blacks in the Union Army of Tennessee

The Confederate General Assembly passed a law to draft free blacks as military laborers in June of 1861. However, a large Union army arrived in February of 1862 ...

At Fort Pillow, Confederates Massacred Black Soldiers After They ...

While around 20 percent of the white Union soldiers died as a result of the battle, approximately 70 percent of the USCT soldiers at Fort Pillow ...

African American soldiers' involvement in the American Civil War ...

African-Americans were serving in the Federal Navy, but they could not join the Federal Army. It was not until July 17, 1862, when Congress passed and President ...

African Americans in the Civil War - Veterans Legacy Program

During the second half of 1862, white Union military officials started forming regiments of black soldiers. In Kansas, James Lane formed the First Kansas ...

Earning the Right to Die: United States Colored Troops

Few people are aware today that some of the first black Union soldiers in the Civil War were liberated slaves, known as “contrabands”, who were impressed ...

PA's Black Civil War Soldiers and Sailors

The Union Army initially excluded African American men from federal military service (though Kansas, South Carolina and Louisiana did form Black regiments prior ...

United States Colored Troops | Juneteenth Legacy Project

Etched into stainless steel panels of the memorial are names identifying 209,145 United States Colored Troops who responded to the Union's call to arms. In 1865 ...

Civil War to Civil Rights: Military - American Civil War Museum

... African Americans in the Union Army and the Confederate Army. After completing this activity, the students could also compare and contrast the experience of ...

America's reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War

By fighting and dying for the Union, black soldiers staked a claim to citizenship in the reconstructed nation that would emerge from the Civil War. Before the ...

Black Soldiers in the Civil War | DocsTeach

In this activity students will analyze a two-page poster that the Government used to recruit recently freed slaves to fight for the Union Army during the ...

The Civil War - The African American Odyssey - Library of Congress

Abraham Lincoln's election led to secession and secession to war. When the Union soldiers entered the South, thousands of African Americans fled from their ...

African American Soldiers - Essential Civil War Curriculum

Some 180,000 African Americans served in the Union army and approximately 18,000 served in the Union Navy. Racial prejudice shaped the experience of black ...

Black Civil War Soldiers - Slavery in Baton Rouge

By Aaron Jacobs This recruitment poster shows Union soldiers at Camp William Penn in Philadelphia. By the spring of 1863 a committee of prominent ...

Fighting for Freedom: African American Troops in the Civil War

Many Northerners, including many Union commanders, did not believe that African American soldiers could fight and were reluctant to commit them to battle. As ...

The First African American Regiment - National Gallery of Art

The Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment, the one of the first African-American military units in the North, began recruitment in February 1863, one month after ...

Freemantown Research Guide: African Americans in the U.S. Civil War

Thomas Freeman's Unit, the 44th U.S. Colored Infantry. In 1862 the Union had begun to enlist Black men in military service.

Freedom: Black Military Experience

The Black Military Experience. book jacket. The service of nearly 180,000 black soldiers in the Union army sped the transformation of the Civil War into a ...

United States Colored Troops in the Civil War - FamilySearch

McPherson, James M. The Negro's Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union, New York: Vintage 2003. McPherson, ...