Reference Tools for Descriptive Recruitment Lists of Volunteers  for the United States Colored Troops for the State of Missouri, 1863-1865
(National Archives Microfilm Publication M1894)

The microfilms contain records of the African American men, most of whom were slaves, who enlisted in the United States Colored Troops between 1863 and 1865 at a Missouri recruitment station. When the volunteer was a slave, the record also includes information about his former slave owner.

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Descriptive Pamphlet Map of recruiting stations (1.9 Mg PDF) Online index  Roll list with frame numbers Sample document  The descriptive recruitment list for each recruit spans two pages. Slide Show about this source
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Reference Tools for African American Research

For more information about the U.S. Colored Troops from Missouri see the U.S. Colored Troops and the Plight of the Refugee Slave web page.

Also consider searching the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System for an ancestor who served in the Civil War.  That site includes a  name index for Civil War soldiers and sailors, histories of Union and Confederate regiments, battles of the war, and other historical information.