The Book of Names - Volume 1: the Northern States

The 209,145 names of U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) are drawn from the official records of the Bureau at the National Archives and are engraved on the Wall of Honor at the African American Civil War Memorial in Washington, D.C. This volume includes the names of USCT who served in Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin. The two other volumes in this set list the names of USCT who served in the Southern States and Border States.