REGIMENTAL HISTORIES
OF
U.S. COLORED TROOPS
FORMED IN NORTH CAROLINA
And Other Articles
Below are a some materials we will be posting online for the benefit of family historians and researchers. Anyone knowing of other materials available concerning the four regiments of U.S. Colored Troops formed in North Carolina during the Civil War, please contact me. Thanks.
The
Allen Parker Slave Narrative: A history research project by students
at East Carolina University on the slave narrative of Allen Parker, a slave
from Chowan County, NC who escaped on a Union gun boat, went to New Bern,
joined the Union Navy, and after the war migrated to Worcester, Massachusetts.
Allen Parker is listed on this web site with the Union sailors.
Freedman's
Colony on Roanoke Island during the Civil War, by Patricia C. Click,
author of a new book, "Time Full of Trial: The Roanoke Island Freedmen’s
Colony, 1862-1867" (UNC Press). This web site contains a history of
the Freednmen's Colony, Documents, Maps and other materials.
"The
War Within the Confederacy: White Unionist of North Carolina,"
By Michael K. Honey. Reprinted from Prologue (Journal of the National Archives),
Summer 1986, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 75-93.
"Recollections
of My Slavery Days" by William Henry Singleton. Originally published
in a local Peekskill, New York newspaper in 1922, the autobiography of
William Henry Singleton, from Craven County, NC, recounts his years as
a slave, his Civil War service in Company B, 35th UC Colored Infantry and
his life after the war.
"Raising
the African Brigade: Early Black Recruitment in Civil War North Carolina",
by Dr. Richard Reid, Dept. of History, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada;
in North Carolina Historical Review, 70 (1993), pp. 266-301.
"Report
of the Services Rendered by the Freed People to the United States Army,
in North Carolina, in the Spring of 1862, After the Battle of Newbern,"
by Vincent Colyer, Superintendent of the Poor under General Burnside; New
York, published by Vincent Colyer, No. 105 Bleecker Street; 1864.
“Two
Years With A Colored Regiment: A Woman’s Experience,” by
Frances Beecher Perkins; New England Magazine, XVII, pp. 533-543;
January, 1898.
"History
of the Thirty-seventh Regt. U.S.C. Infantry From Its Organization in the
Winter of 1863 and '64, to the Present Time, With List of Names of All
Officers and Enlisted Men Who Have Belonged to the Reigment...".
Phila: King & Baird, 1866. pp. 136.
“The
Forgotten Sons: North Carolinians in the Union Army”, by Glenda
Hicks; Masters Thesis, Appalachian State University, Boone, 1968; pp. 59.
"The
African-American's Civil War: A History of the 1st North Carolina Colored
Volunteers". Masters Thesis by Jonathan William Horstman; 1994.
Western Carolina Univ., Collowhee.
"Just
Learning To Be Men: A History Of The 35th United States Colored Troops,
1863-1866."
Masters Thesis by Shana Renee Hutchins, 1999, North Carolina State University,
Raleigh.
"A Model Regiment: The 36th United States Colored Infantry in the Civil War." by James Kenneth Bryant, II; Masters Thesis, University of Vermont; 1996, 154 pp. [ NOT AVAILABLE ]
Thanks to Kay Lynn Sheppard and Robert Parrish for their valuable assistance in preparing these materials.
Copyright
1999, 2000