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United States Colored Troops
Civil War
 Disagreement with allowing black men to
represent the United States.
 USCT fought first skirmish against the
Confederate at Island Mound, Missouri that
October.
 USCT proved over and over again they were
equal to the white in martial equality.
 Accounts of this appeared in The New York
Times, The Chicago Tribune, and Harpers
Weekly.
 First union victory in which an African-American
officer commanded African-American soldiers and
won.
 Two months later after the Island Mound skirmish,
the War Department integrated USCT in the
Union Army.
 USCT integrated in Louisiana, South Carolina, and
Virginia and elsewhere.
 USCT accounted for 10% of the Union Army.
 Approximately 180,000 black men
volunteered.
 Many of the were former slaves.
 Nearly 40,000 gave their lives.
 Why did the whites have issues with the black men
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having rights to represent the US?
What would have happened if black men were not
allowed to join the Union Army?
Do you think the Union Army made the right decision
to allow colored troops to join?
Why did black men decide to volunteer and join the
army?
Would you have volunteered and joined the USCT in
the Union Army?
 Civil War Trust on USCT
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/usct/usctunited-states-colored.html
 The Skirmish of Island Mound
http://islandmound.tripod.com/index1.htm
 Picture of Soldier and Family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unidentified_Africa
n_American_soldier_in_Union_uniform_with_wife_a
nd_two_daughters.jpg