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Subject: March 2000 Update Re: USCT Institute for Local History and Family Research
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:30:56 -0500
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Good Morning [from Harry Bradshaw Matthews]:

I am pleased to announce that the "United States Colored Troops Wall of
Honor, New York, " has been prepared as a free-standing exhibit
containing
the identities of more than 2,300 black men and their white officers who
served during the Civil War as members of two regiments organized in New
York - the 20th USCT and the 26th USCT. The exhibit consists of 70
panels
contained in five wooden structures. In more than 70 percent of the
cases,
the respective local community associated with a soldier is identified.
The
men enlisted primarily from New York and other eastern states, but some
of
the men were also from the Caribbean territories and Canada. The exhibit
was
introduced at the 3RD Annual Emancipation Memorial Ball which was held
at
Hartwick College on Saturday, February 19th. At the event, Hugh
MacDougall
of Cooperstown, and Leigh Eckmair of Gilbertsville, were honored for
their
outstanding research documenting the African American presence in Otsego
County, NY, from the 1790's -1920s.

A printed copy of the  USCT Wall of Honor will be available for viewing
at
the following events:

March 11, 2000  - First Annual Program in Recognition of Black and
Native
American Veterans
Sponsored by the USCT Institute of Suffolk County, NY, and Suffolk
County
Executive
                Robert J. Gaffney; co-sponsored by Suffolk County
Veterans Service Agency,
                Office of Affirmative Action & Minority Affairs, and the
Suffolk County
                African-American Advisory Board. There is free admission
to the event and
                refreshments will follow the presentations.

                The event will be held at the H. Lee Dennison Building,
First Floor Media
Room
                11 am - 1 pm. For exact directions and location please
call 631-853-4738;

March 25, 2000  - Heritage and Leadership Forum, sponsored by Cheyney
University and the
                Harrisburg, PA, Chit & Chat Teen Summit; a program for
students grades
7-12
                to learn how their heritage impacts their respective
leadership styles
(with
                a focus on the  abolitionist movement and the USCT),
with a tribute to
                African American Civil War journalist T. Morris Chester.
For exact
directions
                and location, please call 717-232-8003.

I will be participating in each event and will be available to answer
questions regarding an exhibit and lecture
program which I will soon implement for the purpose of interesting local
communities and educational bodies
to host commemorative events in honor of the USCT, Underground Railroad
and
abolitionist movement.

Harry Bradshaw Matthews
President, USCT Institute

[Associate Dean, Hartwick College]
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