United States, Compiled Military Service Records Of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served With The U.S. Colored Troops - FamilySearch Historical Records: Difference between revisions

*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

=== National Archives Microfilm Publications ===

*[https://www.archives.gov/files/calendar/genealogy-fair/2011/handouts/army-2of4-923-usct.pdf Military Service in the United States Colored Troops (USCT) during the Civil War, 1863–1866]. This document gives the microfilm publication of Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers serving with the United States Colored Troops which have been microfilmed by the National Archives. (PDF)

=== National Archives Related Collections ===

*[https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1226169 Register of U.S. Colored Troop Deaths During the Civil War, 1861 - 1865]

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=== Related Family History Library Holdings ===

''' Compiled Military Service Records - United States Colored troops'''

*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/3744251 Sandra K. Gorin. ''Kentucky Civil War slave compensation claims.''Glasgow, Kentucky : Gorin Genealogical Publishing, 2017. FHL 976.9 M2gss]

*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/499078 Compiled records showing service of military units in volunteer Union organizations] Rolls 204-217

=== Related FamilySearch Historical Record Collections ===

*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1932431 United States Civil War Service Records of Union Colored Troops, 1863-1865.]

*[https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2432941?collectionNameFilter=true Freedmen's Bureau Claim Records]

*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1919699 United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934.]

=== Related Digital Books ===

*[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/225207-freedom-by-the-sword-the-u-s-colored-troops-1862-1867?offset=1 William A. Dobak. ''Freedom by the sword :the U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867.'' Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History. United States Army, 2011]

*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/123097 Joseph B. Ross, comp. ''Tabular analysis of the records of the U.S. colored troops and their predecessor units in the National Archives of the United States.'' Washington, D.C. : NARS, 1973]

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