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American Civil War

The following is a bibliography of sources pertaining to the United States Colored Troops, the Corps d'Afrique, or the many Colored State Volunteer Units which served during the American Civil War.

Call # Title
973.7415 M439H Honoring New York's forgotten soldiers : African Americans of the Civil War : with research examples A-Z : a case study in historiographic genealogy
R 305.8 L581M Men of color to arms! : Black soldiers, Indian wars, and the quest for equality
R 355.008 A858R The right to fight : a history of African Americans in the military
R 355.1 B631 Blacks in the military : essential documents
R 973.7 R758C Civil War stories : tales of everyday soldiers and civilians v. 1-2
R 973.7092 E29P President Lincoln's recruiter : General Lorenzo Thomas and the United States Colored Troops in the Civil War
R 973.71 G198W The won cause : black and white comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic
R 973.71 L388R Race and radicalism in the union army
R 973.74 M917F Forgotten Black soldiers who served in white regiments during the Civil War, Vol. 1-2
R 973.741 I38 Index to descriptive recruitment lists of volunteers for the US colored troops for Missouri, 1863-1865
R 973.7415 B554U U.S. colored troops defeat Confederate cavalry : action at Wilson's Wharf, Virginia, 24 May 1864
R 973.7415 B627 The Black military experience
R 973.7415 B823P The Peninsula Campaign and the necessity of emancipation : African Americans and the fight for freedom
R 973.7415 B826I Iverson Granderson : first class "colored" boy, Union Navy (1863-1865)
R 973.7415 B863D Desperate deliverance : the story of African Americans in the Civil War
R 973.7415 C669A African American faces of the Civil War : an album
R 973.7415 C818S The sable arm : Black troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865
R 973.7415 D632F Freedom by the sword : the U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867
R 973.7415 G543U United States Colored Troops, 1863-1867
R 973.7415 G549F Forged in battle : the Civil War alliance of Black soldiers and White officers
R 973.7415 G651O On the altar of freedom : a black soldier's Civil War letters from the front
R 973.7415 G857F From Loudoun to Glory : the role of African-Americans from Loudoun County in the Civil War
R 973.7415 H279B Black Union soldiers in the Civil War.
R 973.7415 L321A African American soldier in the Civil War : USCT, 1862-66
R 973.7415 M647B The Black Civil War soldiers of Illinois : the story of the Twenty-Ninth U.S. Colored Infantry
R 973.7415 R357A African Canadians in Union blue : volunteering for the cause in the Civil War
R 973.7415 R357F Freedom for themselves : North Carolina's Black soldiers in the Civil War era
R 973.7415 S349M The military destruction of slavery in Southeast Missouri, 1861-1864 & rise of the USCT
R 973.7415 S425C Camp William Penn, 1863-1865
R 973.7415 W538B Black troops, white commanders, and freedmen during the Civil War