Category: USCT
Long Island Black Civil War Naval Landsman Gets Headstone for Juneteenth
The Society of Grand Army of the Republic dedicated a veteran’s Civil War headstone over a previously unmarked gravesite at the Hauppauge United Methodist Church…
Kevin Levin on Robert Gould Shaw Before He Came to Command the 54th Massachusetts
Kevin Levin, author of Searching For Black Confederates and Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder, speaks about Robert Gould Shaw before his…
160th Anniversary of the Combahee Raid at Reconstruction Era National Historical Park June 1-3, 2023
The 160th Anniversary Harriet Tubman On the evening of June 1, 1863 Harriet Tubman and Col. James Montgomery directed three steamships up the Combahee…
Breathing Democracy Into Spaces: The 1st South Carolina Volunteers of African Descent Event April 8, 2023
The University of South Carolina Beaufort’s (USCB) Institute for the Study of the Reconstruction Era is offering a free program on April 8, 2023 on…
NPS Awards $4.5 Million to Acquire 200 Acres of Civil War Battlefields in Virginia
The National Park Service has granted $4.5 million in Battlefield Land Acquisition grants to preserve two Civil War battlefields in Virginia. The grants will provide…
New Civil War Trails Marker in Goldsboro, N.C. on 135th USCT
The City of Goldsboro, North Carolina celebrated the 158th Anniversary of its men taking up arms to free North Carolina from the Confederacy during the…
Kansas Gov. Authorizes New Mural Honoring 1st Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment
The State of Kansas authorized the creation of a mural honoring its first Black Civil War regiment. Here is how the Kansas Reflector reported the…
Around the Web March 2023: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
This was a good month for most Civil War and Reconstruction social media, but two of the most reliable podcasts put out nothing new this…
Unsung Patriots: African Americans in America’s Wars by Eugene DeFriest Bétit
Unsung Patriots: African Americans in America’s Wars by Eugene DeFriest Bétit published by Stackpole Books (2023) I first heard of the “Harlem Hell Fighters” of…
Marker Placed at Balls Bluff Where First Black Man to Fire on Confederates Fought
The Washington Post reports that on Saturday a new historical marker was placed at the site of the Battle of Balls Bluff alongside the Potomac…