AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR CONFERENCE IN Winston-Salem

 SPRING 2011 Symposium on The United States Colored Troops, FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Winston-Salem, NC --- "Women in the Civil War," a regional symposium about the role of the US Colored Troops in the Civil War will be held February 18th at the Old Salem in Winston-Salem, NC. in conjunction with the Old Salem FAmily Heritage Fest Living History Weekend. The weekend will feature presentations and exhibits from national and regional historians, storytellers, civil war scholars, troop demonstrations, and living history cultural interpreters revolving around the participatory role of African Americans in the Civil War.

The conference begins at 9:30 am on Saturday at Old Salem , the conference will feature  seminar tracks focusing on NC  history, NC Battles, Black Spy Network, Hari Jones, Curator African American Civil War Museum, Earl Ijames, NC Museum of History, Hermina Glass-Avery,  and a Frederick Douglass, storyteller.  Civil War Re-enactors from Maryland, D.C., Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, South Carolina and Wilmington, NC; USCT descendants and others will memorialize the USCT soldiers from NC on Saturday afternoon to commemorate the fallen members of the US Colored Troops that fought in those memorable Civil War battles 1863 - 1865 in North Carolina.

    The symposium is produced by the Cultural Heritage Museum (CHM), NC’s primary resource on African American participation in the Civil War located in Kinston and co-sponsored by Old Salem, the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum, Military Road Preservation Trust, NC Association of Black Storytellers, and USCTLHA, a national association  of USCT Re-enactors, Historians, Researchers and Genealogists.

    USCT Symposium, and re-enactments are free.  Those interested in attending may register for the symposium by calling 252-523-1239 or go to www.uscoloredtroops.org and download the registration forms and seminar schedule. Exhibitors and sutlers may also call  252-523-1239 or send an email to .