The Adjutant General’s Office, U.S. War Department, created the Bureau of Colored Troops (BCT) in 1863 to recruit, organize, and oversee U.S. Colored Troops (USCT). Following the Civil War the BCT continued operating until it was absorbed by the...

Colored is a North American euphemism once widely regarded as a polite description of black people (i.e., persons of sub-Saharan African ancestry; members of the "Black race"). It should not be confused with the more recent term people of color, which...