Regimental Histories
American Civil War
The following is a bibliography of sources related to individual regiments of the United States Colored Troops, the Corps d'Afrique, or Colored State Volunteer Regiments all of which formed during the American Civil War. In many cases, State Regiments and all of the Corps D'Afrique became Federal Colored Regiments. Units are recorded under both their initial Regimental Numbers and their USCT number.
| Rgt | Branch | USCT or State | Call # | Title |
| 1st | Colored Infantry | Kansas | R 973.7415 S772S | Soldiers in the army of freedom : the 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War's first African American combat unit |
| 1st | Colored Infantry | Louisiana | R 973.7415 H734L | The Louisiana Native Guards : the Black military experience during the Civil War |
| 1st | Colored Infantry | North Carolina | R 973.7415 R357F | Freedom for themselves : North Carolina's Black soldiers in the Civil War era |
| 1st | Colored Infantry | South Carolina | R 973.7415 A819F | Firebrand of liberty : the story of two Black regiments that changed the course of the Civil War |
| 1st | Colored Infantry | South Carolina | R 973.781 H637C | The complete Civil War journal and selected letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
| 1st | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.74 M153B | Brave men in desperate times : the lives of Civil War soldiers |
| 1st | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 G857F | From Loudoun to Glory: The Role of African-Americans from Loudoun County in the Civil War |
| 1st | Heavy Artillery (African Descent) | Mississippi | R 973.7092 C443C | Captaining the Corps d'Afrique : the Civil War diaries and letters of John Newton Chamberlin |
| 1st | Heavy Artillery (African Descent) | North Carolina | R 973.7415 R357F | Freedom for themselves : North Carolina's Black soldiers in the Civil War era |
| 2nd | 2nd Colored Artillery, Battery "B" | USCT | R 355.0089 A371B | A buffalo soldier's story : Medal of Honor recipient Sergeant Thomas Boyne and his comrades, 1864 to 1889 |
| 2nd | Colored Infantry | North Carolina | R 973.7415 C345E | Edward A. Wild and the African Brigade in the Civil War |
| 2nd | Colored Infantry | North Carolina | R 973.7415 R357F | Freedom for themselves : North Carolina's Black soldiers in the Civil War era |
| 2nd | Colored Infantry | South Carolina | R 973.7415 A819F | Firebrand of liberty : the story of two Black regiments that changed the course of the Civil War |
| 2nd | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 G857F | From Loudoun to Glory: The Role of African-Americans from Loudoun County in the Civil War |
| 3rd | Colored Artillery (Heavy) | USCT | 973.7451 J66O | Ohio's Black Soldiers Who Served in the Civil War |
| 3rd | Colored Infantry | North Carolina | R 973.7415 R357F | Freedom for themselves : North Carolina's Black soldiers in the Civil War era |
| 3rd | Colored Infantry | North Carolina | R 973.7415 C345E | Edward A. Wild and the African Brigade in the Civil War |
| 4th | Colored Artillery (Heavy) | USCT | R 973.7092 C443C | Captaining the Corps d'Afrique : the Civil War diaries and letters of John Newton Chamberlin |
| 4th | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 L849R | A Regiment of Slaves : the 4th United States Colored Infantry, 1863-1866 |
| 5th | Colored Artillery (Heavy) | USCT | R 973.7092 C443C | Captaining the Corps d'Afrique : the Civil War diaries and letters of John Newton Chamberlin |
| 5th | Colored Cavalry | Massachusetts | R 973.7415 G857F | From Loudoun to Glory: The Role of African-Americans from Loudoun County in the Civil War |
| 5th | Colored Cavalry | Massachusetts | 973.7451 J66O | Ohio's Black Soldiers Who Served in the Civil War |
| 5th | Colored Cavalry | Massachusetts | R 973.7415 L113F | The Fifth Massachusetts Colored Cavalry in the Civil War |
| 5th | Colored Infantry | USCT | 973.7451 J66O | Ohio's Black Soldiers Who Served in the Civil War |
| 5th | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 W319E | Eagles on their buttons : a Black infantry regiment in the Civil War |
| 5th | Colored Artillery (Heavy) | USCT | 973.7451 J66O | Ohio's Black Soldiers Who Served in the Civil War |
| 7th | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 C153R | Record of the Service of the Seventh Regiment United States Colored Troops |
| 9th | Infantry (African Descent) | Louisiana | R 973.7092 C443C | Captaining the Corps d'Afrique : the Civil War diaries and letters of John Newton Chamberlin |
| 9th | Colored Artillery (Heavy) | USCT | 973.7451 J66O | Ohio's Black Soldiers Who Served in the Civil War |
| 13th | Colored Artillery (Heavy) | USCT | 973.7451 J66O | Ohio's Black Soldiers Who Served in the Civil War |
| 14th | Colored Artillery (Heavy) | USCT | R 973.7415 R357F | Freedom for themselves : North Carolina's Black soldiers in the Civil War era |
| 15th | Colored Infantry | USCT | 973.7451 J66O | Ohio's Black Soldiers Who Served in the Civil War |
| 16th | Colored Infantry | USCT | 973.7451 J66O | Ohio's Black Soldiers Who Served in the Civil War |
| 17th | Colored Infantry | USCT | 973.7451 J66O | Ohio's Black Soldiers Who Served in the Civil War |
| 22nd | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 B959F | "Freedom to all" : New Jersey's African-American Civil War soldiers |
| 23rd | Colored Infantry | USCT | 973.7451 J66O | Ohio's Black Soldiers Who Served in the Civil War |
| 23rd | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7 R758C | Civil War stories : tales of everyday soldiers and civilians v.1 |
| 25th | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 B959F | "Freedom to all" : New Jersey's African-American Civil War soldiers |
| 25th | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 G857F | From Loudoun to Glory: The Role of African-Americans from Loudoun County in the Civil War |
| 27th | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 M617F | For their own cause : the 27th United States Colored Troops |
| 27th | Colored Infantry | USCT | 973.7451 J66O | Ohio's Black Soldiers Who Served in the Civil War |
| 28th | Colored Infantry | USCT | 973.7451 J66O | Ohio's Black Soldiers Who Served in the Civil War |
| 29th | Colored Infantry | Connecticut | R 973.75 B128D | Double duty in the Civil War : the letters of sailor and soldier Edward W. Bacon |
| 29th | Colored Infantry | Illinois | R 973.7415 M647B | The Black Civil War soldiers of Illinois : the story of the Twenty-Ninth U.S. Colored Infantry |
| 32nd | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 B959F | "Freedom to all" : New Jersey's African-American Civil War soldiers |
| 33rd | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 A819F | Firebrand of liberty : the story of two Black regiments that changed the course of the Civil War |
| 33rd | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.781 H637C | The complete Civil War journal and selected letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
| 34th | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 A819F | Firebrand of liberty : the story of two Black regiments that changed the course of the Civil War |
| 35th | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 R357F | Freedom for themselves : North Carolina's Black soldiers in the Civil War era |
| 36th | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 B915T | The 36th Infantry United States Colored Troops in the Civil War : a history and roster |
| 36th | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 C345E | Edward A. Wild and the African Brigade in the Civil War |
| 36th | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 R357F | Freedom for themselves : North Carolina's Black soldiers in the Civil War era |
| 37th | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 C345E | Edward A. Wild and the African Brigade in the Civil War |
| 37th | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 R357F | Freedom for themselves : North Carolina's Black soldiers in the Civil War era |
| 41st | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 B959F | "Freedom to all" : New Jersey's African-American Civil War soldiers |
| 42nd | Colored Infantry | USCT | 973.7451 J66O | Ohio's Black Soldiers Who Served in the Civil War |
| 43rd | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 B959F | "Freedom to all" : New Jersey's African-American Civil War soldiers |
| 44th | Colored Infantry | USCT | 973.7451 J66O | Ohio's Black Soldiers Who Served in the Civil War |
| 45th | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 B959F | "Freedom to all" : New Jersey's African-American Civil War soldiers |
| 45th | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 G857F | From Loudoun to Glory: The Role of African-Americans from Loudoun County in the Civil War |
| 49th | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 G857F | From Loudoun to Glory: The Role of African-Americans from Loudoun County in the Civil War |
| 54th | Colored Infantry | Massachusetts | R 973.744 E53B | A brave Black regiment : the history of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1865 |
| 54th | Colored Infantry | Massachusetts | RJ 973.7 7-9 | Undying glory : the story of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment |
| 54th | Colored Infantry | Massachusetts | R 973.7415 G651O | On the altar of freedom : a black soldier's Civil War letters from the front |
| 54th | Colored Infantry | Massachusetts | R 973.7415 G857F | From Loudoun to Glory: The Role of African-Americans from Loudoun County in the Civil War |
| 54th | Colored Infantry | Massachusetts | 973.7451 J66O | Ohio's Black Soldiers Who Served in the Civil War |
| 54th | Infantry | Massachusetts | R 973.7415 G811S | Swamp Angels: A Biographical Study of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment |
| 54th | Infantry | Massachusetts | R 973.781 S535B | Blue-eyed child of fortune : the Civil War letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw |
| 55th | Colored Infantry | Massachusetts | R 973.7415 G857F | From Loudoun to Glory: The Role of African-Americans from Loudoun County in the Civil War |
| 55th | Colored Infantry | Massachusetts | R 973.7415 W673P | Practicing medicine in a black regiment : the Civil War diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts |
| 55th | Colored Infantry | Massachusetts | R 973.7415 C345E | Edward A. Wild and the African Brigade in the Civil War |
| 55th | Colored Infantry | Massachusetts | R 973.7415 F791R | Record of the Service of the Fifty-fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry |
| 55th | Colored Infantry | Massachusetts | 973.7451 J66O | Ohio's Black Soldiers Who Served in the Civil War |
| 55th | Colored Infantry | Massachusetts | R 973.7415 R357F | Freedom for themselves : North Carolina's Black soldiers in the Civil War era |
| 57th | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 G857F | From Loudoun to Glory: The Role of African-Americans from Loudoun County in the Civil War |
| 59th | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 C874B | A brief sketch of the Fifty-ninth Regiment of United States Colored Infantry |
| 59th | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.781 T377 | Their patriotic duty : the Civil War letters of the Evans family of Brown County, Ohio |
| 72nd | Colored Infantry | USCT | 973.7451 J66O | Ohio's Black Soldiers Who Served in the Civil War |
| 73rd | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 H734L | The Louisiana Native Guards : the Black military experience during the Civil War |
| 79th | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 S772S | Soldiers in the army of freedom : the 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War's first African American combat unit |
| 100th | Colored Infantry | USCT | 973.7451 J66O | Ohio's Black Soldiers Who Served in the Civil War |
| 102nd | Colored Infantry | USCT | 973.7451 J66O | Ohio's Black Soldiers Who Served in the Civil War |
| 117th | Colored Infantry | Connecticut | R 973.75 B128D | Double duty in the Civil War : the letters of sailor and soldier Edward W. Bacon |
| 11th | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 G857F | From Loudoun to Glory: The Role of African-Americans from Loudoun County in the Civil War |
| 127th | Infantry (Colored) | Ohio | R 973.7415 W319E | Eagles on their buttons : a Black infantry regiment in the Civil War |
| 128th | Colored Infantry | USCT | 973.7415 B959T | They served : stories of United States Colored Troops from Hilton Head Island, South Carolina |
| 128th | Colored Infantry | USCT | R 973.7415 G714B | Borrowed identity : 128th United States Colored Troops : multiple-name usage by Black Civil War veterans who served with Union regiments organized in South Carolina |