US Colored Troops Institute

United States Colored Troops Institute
for Local History and Family Research
2003 Congressional Black Caucus Veterans’ Braintrust Award Recipient

The United States Colored Troops Institute for Local History and Family Research at Hartwick College is an educational institute to promote and encourage original historical and genealogical research about the 200,000 colored men and their 7,000 white officers who comprised the US Colored Troops during the American Civil War. The Institute encourages communities of America (inclusive of the US, Canada and Caribbean nations) to "find" their local USCT members and to place soldiers and their families within a local historical context through educational and commemorative events. The Institute supports this effort through specific venues.

The USCT Institute at Hartwick College is an endorsed site of the United States Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. You can access Hartwick’s Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Symposium by clicking http://www.hartwick.edu/lincoln.xml

Joseph T. Wilson, 1889 Select officers of the USCT ISBN 978-0-9799537-3-6

"25 Brief Facts" [USCT] clickhere

USCT Institute Membership Brochure clickhere

          2003 Congressional Black Caucus Veterans' Braintrust Award
           presented to Harry Bradshaw Matthews at a Washington, DC
           ceremony on September 26th "in recognition of exemplary national
           and community service on behalf of this country's African American
           veterans." The award ceremony was established by General Colin Powell
          in 1990.

Selected for inclusion in Guide to African American Documentary Resources
http://people.cornell.edu/pages/elw25/aa_digital_archiveshome.htm

Selected as the topic of an article by Sandra Jontz, Washington bureau, Stripes Accent, Wednesday, February 6, 2002, and published in European and Pacific Stars & Stripes, Monday, April 15, 2002. http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=128&article=6863&archive=true

Andreal Dunn and Mercedes Bass, The M’bumbala African Dancers February 2002

Pamela L. Matthews and Harry Bradshaw Matthews Blessing Okoh, Dwayvania Miller, Myriam Plaisir, Lancey Plaisir

For questions and comments please contact Harry Bradshaw Matthews,
Associate Dean, Office of Academic Affairs/
President and Senior Fellow, USCT Institute
U.S. Pluralism Center, 103 Bresee Hall
Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY 13820
(607) 431-4428

Last update October 24, 2008 by HBM

"Dedicated to Research,
Preservation, and Remembrance"

John W. Watts. Eighth USCT , reading the Emancipation Proclamation, glass plate, World Service Commission, Chicago, date unknown, Source: Matthews Collection

USCT Symposium Washington, DC by Charles (Ben ) Hawley, published 09/29/2006; updated 09/30/2006 click below

http://photoshow.comcast.net/watch/tD9Hu9RQ

Hartwick College
Oneonta, NY

USCTI President’s Message

The Matthews Collection/ USCT and Freedom Journey

USCT Regiments, Links, etc.

"USCT Wall of Honor, New York" and Family Research

New York State Governor's
Proclamation 1998

Emancipation Proclamation 1863

Pennsylvania USCT Proclamations 2000

Native American/USCT Proclamations 2000

Frederick Douglass
"Men of Color To Arms"