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1st U.S. Colored Cavalry: Private Lives, Public Records

34th United States Colored Troops and 2nd South Carolina Volunteers

45th U.S. Colored Infantry - West Virginia Troops

Little is known about the soldiers and many of their WV Civil War medals remain unclaimed in the WV State Archives.

African Americans in the Civil War: Shamrock Hill Books

[The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

African-American Civil War Memorial

Made possible by AT&T, the Web site provides information for anyone interested in freedom and historical truth or in the valor of the African-American soldiers who fought during the war. An interactive feature allows visitors to find information on the soldiers who served in the war and provides a resource that helps the descendants of these soldiers to keep this history alive. The Web site also features an online store which allows visitors to purchase souvenirs and show their support for the Foundation and it's programs.

Ancestry.com - U.S., Confederate Army Payrolls for Enslaved Labor, 1840-1883 $

Original source: Confederate Slave Payrolls, 1874 - 1899. NAID: 7194477. War Department Collection of Confederate Records, 1825 - 1927, Record Group 109. The National Archives at Washington, D.C. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (CWSS)

The current version of the CWSS is a new presentation of the names and regimental histories of the African American units in the Union Army.

Descriptive Recruitment Lists of Volunteers for the United States Colored Troops for the State of Missouri, 1863-1865

From the St. Louis County Library. Information about this microfilm set which records the recruitment of 5,000+ African Americans who enlisted in Missouri Colored Volunteers during 1863-1865.

Eighth United States Colored Troops

FamilySearch - United States Civil War Service Records of Union Colored Troops, 1863-1865 ^FREE

Union service records of soldiers who served in the United States Colored Troops.The records include a jacket-envelope for each soldier, labeled with his name, his rank, and the unit in which he served. The jacket-envelope typically contains card abstracts of entries relating to the soldier as found in original muster rolls, returns, rosters, payrolls, appointment books, hospital registers,prison registers and rolls, parole rolls, inspection reports; and the originals of any papers relating solely to the particular soldier. For each military unit the service records are arranged alphabetically by the soldier's surname. The Military Unit field may also display the surname range (A-G) as found on the microfilm. This collection is a part of RG 94, Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917 and include NARA microfilm publications pertaining to the compiled service records of the United States Colored Troops. Index courtesy of Fold3.

FamilySearch Wiki - United States Colored Troops in the Civil War

Genealogy Quest - African American Medal of Honor Winners

African-American Medal of Honor Winners from the Civil War to the Spanish American War.

Kentucky Colored Troops Project

Database of African American men who enlisted in the Union Army in Kentucky. Volunteers research using a variety of archival documents, including slave schedules, church records, wills, estate inventories, pension documents, census data, and newspapers to create a database record for each soldier and his family with links to primary source documents as well as a family tree. The results of this research are published in a searchable database, with new information being added regularly.

Last Road to Freedom - Information is freedom

Ten years ago, lastroadtofreedom was zealously published to create new conversations around Black experiences of America’s Civil War and African-American emancipation. Fresh conversations would include awareness of emergence of contraband (refugee) camps and the registers (logs) created at the camps. Beginning in 2009 and continuing into the present, more than a dozen logs of African Americans living behind Union lines within occupied areas of the American South have been transcribed from their original forms and published on this site as part of the work of the Eaton-Bailey-Williams Freedpeople’s Digitization Project at Rust College (Holly Springs, Miss).

Lest We Forget - Section 13 U.S.C.T., Washington Cemetery, Washington Courthouse, Ohio

Fayette County, Ohio.

NARA - Military Service in the United States Colored Troops (USCT) during the Civil War, 1863–1866

Preserving the Legacy of the United States Colored Troops

Article by Budge Weidman.

Resources for Documenting United States Colored Troops Veterans | IAAM Center for Family History

Rochester Images - Many Roads to Freedom

Has links to Rochester, New York area Underground Railroad house sites, Civil War soldier data, and searchable scanned newspapers. Useful for researching soldiers and abolitionists.

United States Colored Troops Resident in Baltimore at the Time of the 1890 Census