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All About: United States Colored Troops in The Civil War and more about African Americans during that time period with links to many units.

This is our top pick for the subject

U.S. Colored Troops Formed in North Carolina

A small group of volunteers transcribing the microfilm of the Regimental Descriptive Books for the 35th, 36th & 37th U.S. Colored Infantries and the 14th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery, and the recently discovered 135th US Colored Infantry, formed in 1865 in NC. Also includes pages on Medal of Honor winners, regimental histories and other articles concerning these regiments. This data will be linked with genealogical information contributed by descendants of these soldiers.

At present the group has completed about 1/2 of the materials and are in great need of volunteers to assist in transcribing the data from the microfilm. Anyone who would like to volunteer, who has use of a microfilm reader, please let John B. McGowan know.

An excellent job so far with promises of more to come

The homepage of the 4th USCT - Organized at Baltimore, Md., July 15 to September 1, 1863.

This site is the work of the "only black Civil War reenacting group based in Northern California" and is an excellent source of information regarding Civil War soldiers of color in general and the 4th USCT in particular. There is no roster posted as of the date of this listing but perhaps we can pursuade them to post one.

United States Colored Trooper - Garrison Freeman

Including associated surnames: HOPKINS NOLAN COX BANTOM HILL WELLS TONEY

1st NC Colored Infantry / 35th US Colored Infantry

2nd NC Colored Infantry / 36th US Colored Infantry

106th Regiment Colored Infantry

Organized at Decatur, AL
aka 4th regiment Alabama infantry,a.d. [African Descent]
consolidated with 40th regiment U.S. colored troops

110th Regiment Colored Infantry

Organized at Pulaski, TN
aka 2d regiment Alabama volunteers, a.d. [African Descent]

Co. D., 8th Reg't USCT Artillery

Some additional excellent resources for your research are :

• Interment.net ~ Cemetery Transcriptions on the net.

• Ancestry.com ~ A huge compilation of databases some of which are free and some of which require a paid subscription.