**NY Regiment USCT ( Civil War's United States Colored Troops)

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HAPPY 152nd THANKSGIVING

*NEW*  (MORTAR) ADDED TO THE ARSENAL

26th USCT Union Navy Corp's 

"JOSEPH TEAGLE"
featured at MAPLE GROVE's SPIRITS ALIVE
broadcasted on NHK ( Japan Television) in NOV 2015

26th USCT DIORAMA 

"The UNTOLD EPIC STORY"
by artist, Living Historian Ludger K. Balan
moderated by the 26th USCT Historical Interpreters

EXHIBITING at BROOKLYN BOROUGH HALL on AUG 28th

26th USCT
New York Regiment United States Colored Troops
(Scroll below for Events)

SAT NOV 1st at PS 203 in Brooklyn, NYC
Family and Children Fun Living History Weekend
26th USCT Living History Encampment 
A 150th Anniversary of the USCT and Civil War Sesquicentennial 1864-2014

Maryland Emancipation Day -SAT Oct 25th- 10am- 4pm
at Wiley Bates Heritage Park in Annapolis, Maryland
26th USCT Living History Encampment & More.

check out more pics from this event at the 26th USCT FB

African American Parade in Harlem 2014

SUN AUG 17th 
10th Annual Senator Malcom Smith & LL Cool J
"BALL & JUMP"

visit at Pastor Amrstead, First Church of God In Christ

AUG 2nd thru SEPT 13th
Excerpt of the 26th USCT Diorama 
"The Untold Epic Story" at  Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning's "LOCAL COLOR-Artist Co-Op 1" group show

 pic of excerpt the 26th USCT Diorama installation-

JULY 30th
USCTLHA delegates at 
First Issue 150th of the USCT Stamp Dedication 2014

watch the video


JUNE 21st
JUNETEENTH at African American Museum in Philydelphia

JUNE 20th 
MILEVA First Veterans Breakfast

JUNE 7th
"Songs of the Civil War"
at STUDIO MUSEUM of HARLEM

 (watch video)

MEMORIAL DAY at CYPRESS HILL CEMETERY

MEMORIAL DAY at HARSIMUS CEMETERY

150th BATTLE of FORT POCAHONTAS- 
SAT MAY 17th, SUN 18th 
(watch video)

HOW DO YOU PLAN TO COMMEMORATE 
THE NEW YORK REGIMENT 
UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS 
during The CIVIL WAR SESQUICENTENNIAL 1864-2014
 
SAT APRIL 12th -26th USCT Graveyard Ceremony at
the Historic Mount Moor
(watch video)

SAT APRIL 5th, 11am 
The 26th USCT at the New York Historical Society Museum and Library

(watch video)

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The 26th USCT receives great honors on BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2014 from NYC Council, The Black Latino & Asian Caucus with a PROCLAMATION
Honoring the 150th Anniversary of the New York Regiment United States Colored Troops

 with Councilmember Jumaanee Williams (Spearheaded the program)

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with Councilmember Fernando Cabrera

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26th USCT Black History Month at Mayor's Office of Veteran's Affairs and Municipal Records
"Honoring Women of The Military Event" at The Historic Surrogate Court

(watch video)

26th USCT Black History Month presentation at Teen Library in Queens-2/20/14
(watch video) 

 

26th USCTC on Bronx Net "Open"

 

VETERANS DAY EVENTS
NOV 11th
Join Us as we march in honor of the United States Colored Troops of the American Civil War

Join us on THURS NOV 7th in honoring
the Black Soldiers of the New York Regiment United States Colored Troops- featuring the 26th USCT from Rikers, NY Harbor
A sesquicentennial event
"The FOOTSTEPS of the FORGOTTEN SOLDIERS" 

Join us in Celebrating 
YOUTH WEEK
CIVIL WAR to CIVIL RIGHTS
at the AFRICAN BURIAL GROUNDS MONUMENT
& MUSEUM in NYC
WED OCT 2nd- from 10am

 

Join us in HONORING the GALLANTRY of 
the USCT of CAMP PENN
Highlighting the *3rd, *6th and *22nd USCT
Plus
The  Nat'l USCTLHA CONFERENCE & BANQUET

watch video from Camp Penn event

 

HONORING THE GALLANTRY OF THE MEN OF
THE 54th MASSACHUSETTS
150th of the 54th, in Charleston, SC

The New York Regiment United States Colored Troops-  
NYC USCT 20th, **26th, 31st
FLAG DAY 2013
We celebrated Flag Day 2013 with the reproduction of our 
NY 26th USCT Regimental Colors
find out about the Significance of That Flag
at
CELEBRATE JUNETEENTH
AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND NATIONAL MONUMENT & MUSEUM, in Lower Manhattan  
WED JUNE 19th, 2013- 11:30-2:30pm

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The United States Colored Troops (USCT) were regiments of the United States Army during the American Civil War that were composed of African-American ("colored") soldiers. First recruited in 1863, by the end of the Civil War, the men of the 175 regiments of the USCT constituted approximately one-tenth of the Union Army.

NY 26th USCT

 Over 4,000 free Blacks served in the only three USCT regiments that came our of New York, The 20th, the 26th, and the 31st. There training bases were Rikers Island, and Hart Island ( also known as Potter's Field). The NY USCT drew enlistees from near and far, including countries outside of the United States, such as Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Cuba Trinidad, Puerto Rico, Virgin Island, Barbados, and Native Americans from Long Island.

NY Regiment of United Colored Troops' Civil War and Baseball

"base ball" was regularly played on Saturdays in 1823 on the outskirts of New York City in an area that today is Greenwich Village.

The first team to play baseball under modern rules were the New York Knickerbockers. The club was founded on September 23, 1845, as a social club for the upper middle classes of New York City, and was strictly amateur until it disbanded.

In 1857, sixteen New York area clubs, including the Knickerbockers, formed the National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP). The NABBP was the first organization to govern the sport and to establish a championship. Aided by the Civil War, membership grew to almost 100 clubs by 1865 and to over 400 by 1867

Civil war, soldiers from different parts of the United States played baseball together, leading to a more unified national version of the sport.

At the end of the Civil War, Weeksville, in Brooklyn, NY ( Visit Weeksville Heritage Center) was a bustling black community, spread out over nearly one hundred present-day blocks. It was self-sustaining, with churches, schools, including Colored School No. 2,  homes for orphans and the elderly, farms, and businesses. Some sources put it as the second-largest free-black community in the country. It even had its own baseball team, which beat the Colored Union Club of Hoboken 11-0 in 1860, in the first known game between black teams.

Asian American in the American Civil War

in Association with
The 3rd Regiment of US Colored Troops
The 6th Regiment of US Colored Troops

SCHOOL of the SOLDIER
CIVIL WAR WEEKEND
 at  ALLAIRE STATE PARK
JUNE 1st and JUNE 2nd

NY 26th USCT presenting at JUNETEENTH Program
at The AFRICAN BURIAL GROUNDS NATIONAL MONUMENT
& MUSEUM on JUNE 19th- 11:30-2:30

USCT presenting at JUNETEENTH Program
at The AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSEUM in Philadelphia
SAT JUNE 15th

"Life of the USCT" at AAMP "Juneteenth" Celebration

 

DID YOU MISS THIS SPECTACULAR EVENT?

Tis Was a Spectacular Event to Learn About the NY 26th USCT

and Other USCTs too

Watch the Video

USCT's Civil War Weekend at Fort Mifflin 

 The Story of NYC 26th USCT

(The Travel Light Classroom Presentation)

CIVIL WAR WEEKEND at NESHAMINI STATE PARK

USCTs REPRESENTED in Battle Reenactment

Phila 3rd, NJ 6th, NY 26th

Other Comrades in Battle- 69th PA (Irish)

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LIVING HISTORY PROGRAM IS AVAILABLE FOR CLASSROOM PRESENTATIONS
and EVENTS

(Each presentation offers a living history reenactor/educator/historian, an exhibit of period artifacts, demonstrations and a powerpoint. All presented in a museum quality exposition.

  Sessions run approx 45 min to double periods.)