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United States, Compiled Military Service Records Of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served With The U.S. Colored Troops - FamilySearch Historical Records: Difference between revisions
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== What is in This Collection? == | == What is in This Collection? == | ||
The collection consists of [https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war/compiled-service-records.html compiled military service records] of volunteers who served in the United States Colored Troops. The records include abstracts of entries relating to the soldier as found in original records such as muster rolls, payrolls, hospital and prison records. A file may also include original documents. Many volunteers were former slaves who enlisted after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. This collection is a part of Record Group 94,[http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/094.html Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780s-1917.] [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10461617 '''Colored Troops Division, Administrative History Note'''] | |||
This collection contains a portion of the Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops, including the 1st through 5th United States Colored Cavalry, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (Colored), 6th United States Colored Cavalry (NARA M1818); 1st U.S. Colored Infantry, 1st South Carolina Volunteers (Colored) Company A, 1st U.S. Colored Infantry (1 Year) (M1820); Infantry Organizations, 36th through 40th (M1824). | This collection contains a portion of the Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops, including the 1st through 5th United States Colored Cavalry, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (Colored), 6th United States Colored Cavalry (NARA M1818); 1st U.S. Colored Infantry, 1st South Carolina Volunteers (Colored) Company A, 1st U.S. Colored Infantry (1 Year) (M1820); Infantry Organizations, 36th through 40th (M1824). | ||
== What Can These Records Tell Me? == | == What Can These Records Tell Me? == | ||
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