Below are alphabetical links to data on African
American sailors from North Carolina who served in the United States Navy
(USN) during the Civil War. This information , plus much more data on each
of these sailors, may be found at the Civil
War Soldiers and Sailors System (CWSS), which couducted extensive research
over a period of several years as a special project of the of the National
Parks Service (NPS). On the CWSS web site, click on the sailor's name
to find more information.
I found 933 African American sailors, formerly ex-slaves and freedmen,
who listed various towns and countys in North Carolina as their place of
birth on the database. However, a number of sailors listed only North Carolina
as a birthplace. My study of some of the most common surnames of Hyde Co.,
NC showed that many of these men only listed the state, no county. A further
study of census, marriage and other records will shed more light on the
subject. Your help is needed in adding any data which you may have on any
of these sailors and correcting any errors you find.
If you find your ancestor among these sailors and wish to be contacted
by anyone else researching him, please send me your first and last name
and email address which I will post online with that sailors name. Please
contact me, John B. McGowan, with
any additions or corrections you may have on these sailors. If your ancestor
was an African American soldier from NC who served in one of the five regiments
of U. S. Colored Troops
formed in NC, or any other Union regiment, please visit us there.
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For more data on each sailor, see: Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
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