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Fold3 - Colored Troops

A compiled military service record consists of card abstracts of a soldier's service with information collected from original muster rolls, returns, rosters, payrolls, appointment books, hospital registers, prison registers and rolls, parole rolls, and inspection reports. Unique to the records of the USCT are deeds of manumission, oaths of allegiance, proof of ownership, certificates of monetary award, and bills of sale. Fold3 is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents. The focus of Fold3 is to be a comprehensive collection of U.S. Military records. Some areas of Fold3 are free to use, while others can be freely searched and then viewed with a paid subscription.

Forgotten Patriots - African American Indian Patriots of the Revolutionary War: A Guide to Service, Sources and Studies

Digital download of DAR book that lists thousands of African American and Native American men who fought or otherwise provided service for Patriot side of American Revolutionary War.

Fort Pocahontas

Fort Pocahontas was an earthen fort built and manned by hundreds of United States Colored Troops under the direct command of Brigadier General Edward Augustus Wild. The May 24, 1864, action resulted in a victory for the USCTs against an attack led by Major General Fitzhugh Lee, Robert E. Lee's nephew.

Genealogy Quest - 10th Cavalry Killed and Wounded at San Juan Hill, 1898

List of the missing, dead and wounded Buffalo soldiers of the 10th United Stated Cavalry taken from the reports of officers following the action on San Juan Hill, Cuba during the Spanish American War.

Genealogy Quest - African American Medal of Honor Winners

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

Inspection Roll of Negroes, Book No. 2

List of black men, women and children who left with British at the end of the Revolutionary War. From the U.S. National Archives.

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.

List of African-American Medal of Honor recipients (Wikipedia)

Military Records for African-American Genealogy: Suggestions for Researchers

By Claire Kluskens, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC.

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.

Prologue: Racial Identity and the Case of Capt. Michael Healy

By James M. O'Toole. Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration Fall 1997, vol. 29, no. 3.

Researching African Americans in the U.S. Army, 1866-1890

From Prologue Magazine, The U.S. National Archives

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

Tennessee Colored Pension Applications for C. S. A. Service

This page contains name of African-Americans with Tennessee connections who applied for pensions claiming service with the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.

The Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier

From the International Museum of the Horse.

The Civil War

Several links and articles from Lest We Forget.

The Mitchell Collection of African American History

AfricanAmericanCollection.com is a website that displays one of the world's most comprehensive collections of African American History in the form of artifacts, books, letters, photographs, newspapers and more. The collection is absolutely amazing and is a great resource for people to view some of our nations most interesting moments in African American History.