"Marching Song of the First Arkansas Colored Regiment" is one of the few Civil War-era songs inspired by the lyrical structure of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and the tune of "John Brown's Body"
Song of the First of Arkansas, 1864
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United States Colored Troops
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United States Colored Troops were Union Army regiments during the American Civil War that primarily comprised African Americans, with soldiers from other ethnic groups also serving in USCT units. Esta
Marching Song of the First Arkansas
…The unit then moved to Haines Bluff near Vicksburg, Mississippi until May 1864. The Union Army standardized the varied names of colored regiments as "United States Colored Troops" (U.S.C.T.), and the First Arkansas became the "46th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry" on May 11, 1864. Lindley Miller was the son of Jacob W…
Come and Join Us Brothers, by the Supervisory Committee For Recruiting Colored Regiments
Three quarter portrait, young Civil War soldier in kepi. Cased tintype, ninth plate
US Colored Troops medal 1865 Smithsonian Museum of American History 2012 05 15
Francis Jackson Meriam