Union Army Data - USCT U.S. Colored Troops

The Colored Troops (USCT) samples are longitudinal, life-cycle samples of African American Civil War veterans. Despite their service in the Union Army, the USCT were not entirely “northern” in the sense that about 75% of the men were former slaves from the South who fled north to join the army or who joined U.S. regiments in captured southern cities.

U.S. Colored Troop records fall into two samples, the Original USCT sample and the Expanded USCT sample. The samples are differentiated because they were collected at different times under different data collection technology and cleaning methodologies.

Years Covered: 1850-1860

Dataset Format: xlsx, csv, stata, spss