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Fifth Regiment of the U.S. Colored Cavalry This site is devoted to the history of the Fifth Regiment of the U.S. Colored Cavalry, a unit comprised of men of African descent—slaves, ex-slaves, and free men—who fought for the Union cause during the American Civil War (1861-1865). Members of the regiment were reportedly massacred by Confederate troops following the Battle of Saltville on October 2-3, 1864...... Read more |
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The Second Mass and Its Fighting Californians In the late summer of 1862, a group of Californians, all originally from the East Coast, had contacted Governor Andrews of Massachusetts and proposed to raise one hundred volunteers to form a separate company in a cavalry regiment that was being raised in Massachusetts. The Governor agreed with the condition that the Californians would provide their own uniforms and equipment. Officially they became company A of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry, but were more popularly know as the "California Hundred"...... Read more |
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United States Colored Troops in the Civil War Extensive links pertaining to the history, units, governmental policy and the role of the African-American soldiers...... Read more |
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Records of the 105th. U.S. Colored Troops The following records of the 105th US Colored Troops are from the remaining Civil War files of Lt. Col. Rue Pugh Hutchins (Brevet Brigadier General), as transcribed by his great grandson, A. Donald Kelmers, of Louisville, Kentucky, on March 12-13, 1996...... Read more |
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The famed 73rd U. S. C. T. was first organized in the Confederate service by Governor Moore of Louisiana as the 1st Louisiana Native Guards in May of 1861. After the surrender of New Orleans they offered themselves to the Union...... Read more |
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102nd. United States Colored Troops From Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, Washington D.C., dated July 24, 1863, in part, "You are hereby instructed to raise one Regiment of colored Infantry in the State of Michigan. To these troops no bounty will be paid. They will receive ten dollars per month, with one ration per day, three dollars of which monthly pay will be deducted for clothing, these troops will be commanded by white officers". Under this order to Austin Blair, then Governor of Michigan, the Regiment known originally as the First Regiment of Colored Infantry, afterwards its designation changed to the 102nd. United States Colored Troops was commenced on the 12th. day of August, 1863, upon completion with 895 men on its roll, receiving their commission into the service of the United States...... Read more |
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History of African Americans in the Civil War Approximately 180,000 African Americans comprising 163 units served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and many more African Americans served in the Union Navy. Both free African-Americans and runaway slaves joined the fight...... Read more |
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A Black Patriot and a White Priest: André Cailloux and Claude Paschal Maistre in In A Black Patriot and a White Priest, Stephen J. Ochs chronicles the intersection of two lives in Civil War New Orleans – that of the first black warrior-hero of the Civil war, Captain André Cailloux of the 1st Louisiana native Guards, and that of the Reverend Claude Paschal Maistre, the lone Catholic clerical voice of abolition in New Orleans and one of the first white radicals to emerge in the city...... Read more |
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The struggle for the right to become a "Colored Yankee Soldier" had raged for two years of a war-the Civil War in which they would ultimately provide the margin of victory for the Union. Young white Yankee soldiers were maimed and killed while the president and his advisors hesitated. For to place guns in the hands of black men, would be to elevate them to a status white America seemed unwilling to abide...... Read more |
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54th. Mass. Volunteer Infantry, Co. I Portraying the experience of the African American soldier in the American Civil War in South Carolina..... Read more |
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The history of this unusual unit is laid out here with photographs. These troops were the first black soldiers in the Union Army, but they were first organized as a Confederate unit...... Read more |
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