Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...

Success against the rebels’ fortress, which had never been touched in four years of war, would be a knife ... of what were then called the United States Colored Troops (USCT).

PRINCE FREDERICK, Md. — The Calvert County Department of Planning & Zoning, Historic Preservation, in partnership with the ...

Nicholas Waters, who served in the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War, was originally buried in Tyaskin in 1911. However, his family recently had his remains relocated to ...

Three years after the Civil War began ... First Regiment, United States Colored Troops. A month earlier, while stationed in North Carolina, he had written, "Though the Government openly declared ...

The Militia Act, passed by the United States Congress in 1862, allowed enslaved men to fight for their country during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the United States Colored Troops ...