Tag: usct
“Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the Civil War” Wins Organization of American Historians Book Award
The 2022 Organization of American Historians award for Civil War and Reconstruction Books went to Lorien Foote of Texas A&M University for her Rites of…
The USCT After the War
July 18 was the Anniversary of the assault of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry on Battery Wagner near Charleston. The assault was the most famous…
Three Books on Civil War Era Themes Nominated for the Nonfiction National Book Award
The National Book Award is one of the nation’s most prestigious awards for literature and nonfiction. This year three books set in the Civil War…
Around the Web February 2021: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
Program Notes: I had been posting this feature towards the end of the month, now I will be posting it at the start of the…
“It is the aim…to make colored troops equal” Black Troops in Tennessee March 1864
In 1863 the Union Army began to actively recruit African American men for the United States Colored Troops (USCT). While enlisted men in these regiments…
Monument to United States Colored Troops Erected in Ohio
The number of monuments dedicated to United States Colored Troops (USCT) grew by one this week when a new monument was erected in Ferncliff Cemetery…
New York Peace Democrats: Reasons for Opposing Recruiting Black Union Troops
We don’t often get the full scope of reasons for opposing the recruitment of Black soldiers. This is the view from the Journal of Commerce…
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