Civil War Service Records (CMSR) - Union - Colored Troops Brigade Band
Records: 100 · Complete: 100%
Compiled service records typically contain card abstracts of a soldier's original muster and hospital rolls, descriptive books, lists of deserters, returns, notational cards, and possibly enlistment papers, casualty sheets, death reports, prisoner of war papers, and correspondence. Unique to the records of the USCT are deeds of manumission, oaths of allegiance, proof of ownership, certificates of monetary award, and bills of sale.
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"Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served the United States Colored Troops: Brigade Band" database with images Fold3 (https://www.fold3.com//title/862/civil-war-service-records-cmsr-union-colored-troops-brigade-band: accessed March 6, 2021)
- Publication Title
- Civil War Service Records (CMSR) - Union - Colored Troops Brigade Band
- Total Records
- 100 · Complete: 100%
- Content Source
The National Archives
- Publication Number
- N/A
- Record Group
- 94
- Published on Fold3
- 29 May 2013
- Last Updated
- 29 May 2013
- Description
- Compiled military service records of volunteers who served in Union brigade bands (Corps d'Afrique and U.S. Colored Troops), 1861-1866.