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 regi
Camp Nelson provided the Union Army with over 10,000 African-American soldiers, making it the third largest recruiting and training depot for African Americans in the nation.
The people of the South did not, of course, have any great opinion of the negros' courage, but still they felt apprehensive about the women and children left at home, and fearful, too, in regard to neglected plantation work; and the fact of this appr
A comprehensive web site focusing on the activities of Black soldiers in the Union Army - including battle reports, letters, resting places of U. S. Colored Troops and much more.
