United States Colored Troops
Featured Artifacts – 1863
UNIFORM, United
States Colored Troops
Reproduction uniform depicts men such as Welcome Lee who joined the
United States Colored Troops. Lee was a slave laborer from
Elizabeth City who escaped to Roanoke Island where he worked for the
Union Army Quartermaster Corps building and repairing fortifications at
Roanoke Island and Newbern, North Carolina and in Alexandria,
Virginia.
Pasquotank County
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