Military Unit-U.S. Colored Troops (Civil War)

5th Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment (1864-1865)
The 5th Regiment Massachusetts Colored Volunteer Cavalry was a Union Army cavalry regiment during the Civil War. The cavalry regiment...
November 27th, 2023

The First South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment (1862-1866)
The First South Carolina Volunteer Infantry was the first officially recognized black unit of the Union Army during the Civil War. It was quietly...
September 9th, 2018

Preston Taylor (1849–1931)
“Image Ownership: Public Domain” Preston Taylor was an African American businessman, minister, and philanthropist, who, by the early twentieth century,...
November 29th, 2016