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What If…USCT Led The Attack at the Battle of the Crater
Pondering our Emerging Civil War series about “What Ifs…?”, I thought about the many what if situations that I have been asked at either tours or talks that I have given. A visitor who knew that I was an author … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, USCT
Tagged African American soldiers, Ambrose Burnside, Battle of the Crater, Black soldiers, George G. Meade, James Ledlie, USCT, What if?, What-If-2022
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Saving History Saturday: 28 Acres of New Market Heights Battlefield Donated to the Capital Region Land Conservancy
The owners of Four Mile Creek Farm, a core part of the New Market Heights Battlefield, donated 28 acres of the 73-acre farm to the Capital Region Land Conservancy, to be preserved forever. The remaining 45-acres will be conveyed to … Continue reading
USCT, USCI, USCC, etc.: What Do All Those Letters Mean?
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome back Tim Talbott On May 22, 1863, the United States War Department issued General Order 143, creating the Bureau of Colored Troops. Article VI of the order states: “Colored troops may be accepted … Continue reading
“Blackest Man in New Orleans” – Captain Cailloux of the Louisiana Native Guards – Part 2
Find Part One Here The Native Guards on the extreme right of the Union flank at Port Hudson were positioned in front of some of the roughest terrain on the battlefield and ordered to attack the strongest portion of the … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Memory, Regiments, Sieges, USCT, Western Theater
Tagged 1st Regiment Native Guards, 33rd Mississippi, 3rd Regiment Native Guards, André Cailloux, Benjamin Butler, Black regiment, Black soldiers, civil war memory, Claude Paschal Maistre, Colonel John Nelson, Louisiana Native Guards, Major General Franklin Gardner, Nathaniel Banks, National Emancipation Monument, New Orleans, Port Hudson, St. Louis Cemetery, W.B. Shelby, William Dwight
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“Blackest Man in New Orleans” – Captain Cailloux of the Louisiana Native Guards – Part 1
The unit that would be later known as the Louisiana Native Guards found its start, astoundingly, in Confederate Louisiana in May of 1861. Accepted as a militia regiment by Governor Thomas Moore, 33 black officers and 731 privates – all … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Memory, Regiments, USCT, Western Theater
Tagged 1st Regiment Native Guards, 2nd Regiment Native Guards, 3rd Regiment Native Guards, Admiral David G. Farragut, André Cailloux, Benjamin Butler, civil war memory, Felicie Coulon, Institute Catholique, John W. Phelps, Louisiana Native Guards, Nathaniel Banks, New Orleans, Port Hudson
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Saving History Saturday: Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial Restoration Complete
In the summer of 2020 work began on the restoration of the Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial located in Boston Massachusetts. The Memorial recognizes the first all-volunteer Black regiment of the Union Army during the Civil War. … Continue reading
A Visit to New Market Heights
ECW is pleased to welcome Shelly Liebler. Shelly is a photographer based in the Williamsport, Virginia, area. The American Battlefield Trust and Civil War Trails have teamed up to interpret this acquisition in Varina, Virginia: the New Market Heights Battlefield, … Continue reading
“Doing Justice to Their Share”
“[H]istory has not yet done justice to the share borne by colored soldiers in the war for the Union,” wrote Col. Thomas Jefferson Morgan, commander of a USCT brigade at the battle of Nashville. A statue installed in the town … Continue reading
Fallen, but not Forgotten: Sgt. John Grinnell, Co. E, 38th USCI
ECW is pleased to welcome back Tim Talbott, founding member and President of the Battle of New Market Heights Memorial and Education Association. In the Border States of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri the process of emancipation and enlisting formerly … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, USCT
Tagged 38th USCT, 5th USCT, Alonzo Draper, Battle of New Market Heights Memorial and Education Association, Charles J. Paine, City Point National Cemetery, Deep Bottom, Edward Ratcliff, Fort Harrison National Cemetery, John Grinnell, Medal of Honor, New Market Heights, Tim Talbott, United States Colored Troops, USCI, USCT, William J. Edelen
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Sister Lydia Penny: “Like a Ministering Angel”
ECW is pleased to welcome back Tim Talbott. Tim originally sent this post to us for Women’s History Month; we apologize for the delay in getting it up. We are fortunate that several United States Colored Troops (USCT) soldiers chose … Continue reading
