The Forty-third regiment United States Colored Troops

A chaplain's regimental history presents a concise account of a United States Colored Troops unit, combining service chronology with character sketches of commissioned officers. It documents recruitment, campaigns and skirmishes participated in, battlefield wounds and promotions, and everyday discipline and organization. Interwoven are arguments asserting the unit's bravery, efficiency, and capacity for intellectual and moral improvement, supported by individual military records and descriptions of leadership and actions across the regiment's wartime service.