Black Soldiers & Participants in the Civil War

Overview

African American Women in the Civil War (from InfoBase database): https://online-infobase-swb.orc.scoolaid.net/Auth/Index?aid=16632&itemid=WE52&articleId=466117

Discusses Harriet Tubman, Maria Lewis, and Mary Louveste

African American Soldiers in the Civil War (ABC-CLIO: American History):

https://americanhistory-abc-clio-swb.orc.scoolaid.net/Search/Display/1545166?terms=black+soldiers+civil+war&sTypeId=2

National Archives: Black Soldiers in the U.S. Military During the Civil War | National Archives.

–Check out the Lesson Resources in the right column for more information

Gilder Lehrman:

Historical Context: Black Soldiers in the Civil War | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

American Battlefield Trust:

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/united-states-colored-troops

History.org

Black Civil War Soldiers: https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/black-civil-war-soldiers

New York Times

“A Call to Remember the 200,000 Black Troops Who Helped Save the Union”:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/26/us/civil-war-black-troops.html

–On the movement of some legislators to honor these troops with the Congressional Gold Medal

Individuals

History.com: 6 Black Heroes of the Civil War:

https://www.history.com/news/black-heroes-us-civil-war-tubman-douglass-augusta-smalls-galloway

–Includes Harriett Tubman, Alexander Thomas Augusta, Robert Smalls

AAREG: African American Registry

https://aaregistry.org/story/andre-cailloux-civil-war-hero/

–Use the Search feature to search your subject.  Features biographies of: Andre Cailloux, Alexander T. Augusta, Robert Smalls, William Carney, Christian Fleetwood, Charlotte Forten Grimke, Harriet Tubman, and Mary Elizabeth Bowser.

Congressional Medal of Honor Society

View All Medal of Honor Recipients | Congressional Medal of Honor Society | Page 1

–Use the Search feature to search your subject.  Features brief entries on Powhatan Beaty, Bruce Anderson, William H. Barnes, Robert Blake, James H. Bronson, Wilson Brown, Milton M. Holland, Robert Augustus Sweeney, John H. Lawson, Andrew J. Smith, Miles James, James Daniel Gardner (listed as Gardiner), John Lawson, William H. Carney, William H. Brown, Decatur Dorsey, Christian Fleetwood, James H. Harris

BlackPast.org

https://www.blackpast.org/

–Use the Search feature to search your subject.  Features biographies of: Alexander Augustus, Powhatan Beaty, A. Jackson Smith, Robert Smalls, William A. Jackson, Christian Fleetwood, Charlotte Forten Grimke, and Harriet Tubman

Mariner’s Museum and Park:

African American US Medal Of Honor Recipients During The Civil War - Part I: US Navy - The Mariners' Museum and Park

Profiles of Aaron Anderson, Robert Blake, William H. Brown, Wilson Brown, and John Lawson

Article about Mary Touvestre (sometimes spelled Touveste): A Slave and A Spy | Commentary | Civil War Monitor

Article about Maria Lewis: This was the real-life, Civil War-era 'Mulan' - We Are The Mighty