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Category Archives: USCT
‘Citizen Archivists’ and Civil War Documents
When I began my research on an Ohio African American Civil War regiment, the 27th United States Colored Troops (USCT), the only option I had if I wanted to read the soldier’s compiled military service records and pension files was … Continue reading
USCT Captain Richard Etheridge Memorialized
Emerging Civil War welcome guest author George W. Hettenhouse The Northern Outer Banks, a narrow strip of sand that extends from the Virginia/North Carolina border to Hatteras Inlet, NC, roughly 120 miles to the south, is full of history. The first English … Continue reading
Posted in Slavery, USCT
Tagged 36th USCT, black history, black history month, black-history-2018, Bodie Island, Buffalo Soldiers, Cape Hatteras, George W. Hettenhouse, Gold Lifesaving Medal, lighthouse keeper, New Market Heights, Outer Banks, Outer Banks North Carolina, Pea Island Station, Richard Etheridge, U.S. Lifesaving Service
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Slaves and Sailors in the Civil War
The enlistment of African Americans as soldiers in the United States Army during the Civil War is a well-examined topic, but less appreciated is the story of freedmen and former slaves as sailors in the navy. Wartime experiences of these … Continue reading
Posted in Navies, USCT
Tagged African American sailors, African American soldiers, Battle of Mobile Bay, black history, black history month, black-history-2018, Civil War Navy, contraband, freedmen, fugitive slaves, integrated, Isaac Chauncy, John H. Lawson, maritime history, Medal of Honor, Oliver H. Perry, racially integrated, second great awakening, Union Blockade, USS Constitution, USS Hartford, USS Minnesota, War of 1812
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“I am a poor colored soldier…” – Finding Private Anthony Wren
ECW welcomes back guest author Jon-Erik Gilot Several years ago the historical society in my hometown of Mount Pleasant, Ohio, received a donation of books, photographs, and papers relating to Pinkney Lewis Bone. Bone was something of a local celebrity … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, USCT
Tagged 52nd Ohio, 9th United States Colored Heavy Artillery, Anthony Wren, civil war veterans, Department of Cumberland, disabled Civil War veterans, Grand Army of the Republic, Jon-Erik Gilot, Mount Pleasant Ohio, Nashville, Ohio, Pinkney Bone, quakers, Short Creek Cemetery, USCT
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From ECW’s Archives: 54th Massachusetts at Fort Wagner
We retrieved this post by Phill Greenwalt from the Emerging Civil War archives for Black History Month.
Posted in USCT
Tagged 54th Massachusetts Infantry, black history, black history month, Fort Wagner
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From ECW’s Archives – Black Confederates: Laborers or Soldiers?
In 2016, Emerging Civil War author Steward T. Henderson wrote a five part series, sharing his research about Black Confederates. Were they soldiers or laborers? We thought it was a discussion to revisit during 2018 Black History Month.
Posted in Slavery, USCT
Tagged Black Confederates, black history, black history month, ECW archives, from the archives
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Turning Point: Assault on Battery Wagner by the 54th Massachusetts
Around a small hamlet in southern Pennsylvania, Robert E. Lee’s vaunted Army of Northern Virginia was stymied and driven back after three days, July 1st through the 3rd, of bloodletting at the Battle of Gettysburg. A turning point in the … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Common Soldier, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Monuments, Slavery, USCT
Tagged 1863, 54th Massachusetts, African-American, Battery Wagner, Chicago Tribune, Douglas Egerton, Douglas R. Egerton, Edwin Stanton, Gettysburg, Horace Greeley, John Andrews, Joseph Holt, July 18, Medal of Honor, North, Port Hudson, Robert E. Lee, Robert Gould Shaw, Siege of Vicksburg, slavery, South Carolina, Southern, Thunder at the Gates, Tullahoma Campaign, Ulysses S. Grant, USCT, Vicksburg Campaign, William Harvey Carney
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Harry Turtledove, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and the Beatles
You’ve got Turtledove’s Fort Pillow (2006)? Turn to page 140, and a Tennessee cavalryman cries, “Get back, Jojo!” …which has led me over these years to wonder if the esteemed author sprinkles a Beatles lyrics line into his other novels—alternative fiction, science … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Books & Authors, Civil War in Pop Culture, USCT
Tagged Beatles, fiction, Fort Pillow, Harry Turtledove, USCT
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War Comes to St. George’s (part one)
(part one of a series) Last August, I had the honor of giving a lecture at my church, St. George’s Episcopal Church, about its history during the Civil War. Several living historians, members of Women of the Civil War, the … Continue reading
