tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7734338450587111138.post1714547393670652622..comments2023-10-18T02:04:41.258-07:00Comments on The USCT Chronicle: Getting to the Story by Learning the FactsAngela Y. Walton-Rajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12987860835348165902noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7734338450587111138.post-11438450225200728392012-02-15T20:05:38.272-08:002012-02-15T20:05:38.272-08:00Reading "Killing Lincoln" USCT mentioned...Reading "Killing Lincoln" USCT mentioned of course!!Rennahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06023301301191125683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7734338450587111138.post-71672121040575159202011-01-17T17:12:05.220-08:002011-01-17T17:12:05.220-08:00Thank you Mr. Monroe for sharing your information ...Thank you Mr. Monroe for sharing your information as well. I agree that there have been varying numbers regarding battles and whichever numbers are closest, they all show the presence and involvement of the US Colored Troops in the American Civil War and their fight for freedom!Angela Y. Walton-Rajihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12987860835348165902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7734338450587111138.post-62343159267650169672011-01-17T15:14:15.718-08:002011-01-17T15:14:15.718-08:00This is an extremely valuable blog. Thank you for...This is an extremely valuable blog. Thank you for giving us much to think about. You raise very important questions and as always, provide compelling evidence to support your conclusions. <br /><br />According to the National Archives, the USCT included 7 numbered cavalry regiments; 13 numbered artillery regiments plus 1 independent battery (originally from Kansas); 134 numbered infantry regiments; Brigade Bands Nos. 1 and 2 (Corps d' Afrique and U.S. Colored Troops); Powell's Regiment Colored Infantry; Southard's Company Colored Infantry; Quartermaster Detachment; Pioneer Corps, 1st Division, 16th Army Corps; Pioneer Corps, Cavalry Division, 16th Army Corps; Unassigned Company A Colored Infantry and Unassigned USCT. <br /><br />And then there were the 7 regiments from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Louisiana that continued to operate, with the approval of the War Department, under their sanctioned state volunteer regimental names. <br /><br />Accounts of the actual number of battles and skirmishes in which the U.S. Colored Troops and others participated have varied. The African American historian George Washington Williams wrote in his History of the Negro Troops in the War of Rebellion (1888)that the total number of skirmishes and battles in which the USCT participated numbered 449. <br /><br />The late Budge Weidman of the Civil War Conservation Corps of the National Archives wrote that the number of skirmishes exceeded 400 and that the U.S. Colored Troops fought in 39 major engagements (designated by the Army as "battles"). War Department records indicate that "Colored" troops were wounded in 249 engagements. <br /><br />Perhaps as many as 200,000 African American men fought in the war as soldiers and sailors--with casualties from disease and battle of approximately 37,000. <br /><br />Given the numbers of black men (and women too) who were enlisted in the service of the United States during the war it is reasonable to conclude that most black families in the U.S. at the time had a member in the military. <br /><br />Let us continue to strive together to raise consciousness of the role of our forebears in creating what Lincoln called a "New Birth of Freedom."Lloyd Monroehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02864484807934708034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7734338450587111138.post-55141411914602794272011-01-17T12:19:18.849-08:002011-01-17T12:19:18.849-08:00I am glad to see you posting this and will be link...I am glad to see you posting this and will be linking to it in several places. I have wondered if there were reunions or soldier's groups for the U.S.C.T? Years ago, I photographed all of the markers at the Little Rock National Cemetery and am now putting them online at www.Civilwarbuff.org. There are several hundred soldiers from the U.S.C.T. and we have had quite a response in people finding their ancestors.<br /><br />Keep up the good work! <br />Pris Weathers<br />www.ArkansasTies.com<br />www.Civilwarbuff.orgPris Weathershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04656885078065923455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7734338450587111138.post-41744209645630294102011-01-17T11:49:54.111-08:002011-01-17T11:49:54.111-08:00Coming from one who has never heard my family'...Coming from one who has never heard my family's Civil War Era stories, thank you! I am glad you are here to help set the record straight. <br /><br />One thing I do know... if we believe in ourselves and cherish our heritage (MLK), we will come to the place where we will desire to know the whole story.<br /><br />We will recognize our own exclusion from history. Fables will not resonate in our hearts, and we will venture back to the original historical documentation. We will also find voices we can trust just like I have found yours.<br /><br />What a difference this will make!Robin R. Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10520036289307741520noreply@blogger.com