3rd US COLORED INFANTRY REGIMENT

MEMBERS

3rd US COLORED INFANTRY REGIMENT-------------------- UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS ---------------------- RATHER DIE FREE MEN THAN LIVE TO BE SLAVES

HEADQUARTERS COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA

When the long roll of "Assembly" is sounded on the drum, these are the men who will answer the call.

Sergeant Major Joseph H. Lee
Regimental Sergeant Major
President of the
3rd US Colored Infantry
Co-founder of the 3rd U.S.C.T
Historian, Impressionist

QM/Sgt Byron W. Childress
Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Byron W. Childress
3rd US Colored Infantry
Descendant of Civil War Naval Veteran
Regimental Corresponding Secretary
and Web Master (Wavewalker) of the 3rd U.S.C.T. Regiment
Historian, Archivist, Impressionist, Actor
Petty Officer and Co-founder of the Web Foot Flotilla,
Civil War Sailors of African Descent (Re-enactors)
Member, 1st Rhode Island, Regiment of Foot (Revolutionary War Re-enactors)

1st Sergeant Fredric L. Minus
HQ Company, 1st Sergeant
3rd US Colored Infantry
Descendant of three U.S.C.T. Veterans
also Co-founder and 1st Sergeant of
the 6th US Colored Inf. Regt, (Re-enactors, Trenton, NJ)
1st/Sgt. Minus also serves as Curator of the
U.S.C.T. Department of the Civil War
and Native American Museum of Camp Olden, New Jersey.
Seaman and Co-Founder of the Webfoot Flotilla
Civil War Sailors of African Descent (Re-enactors)
Member, 1st Rhode Island, Regiment of Foot (Revolutionary War, Re-enactors)

2nd Sergeant Tom Davis
HQ Company 2nd Sergeant
Regimental Genealogist
3rd US Colored Infantry
Seaman and Co-founder of the Webfoot Flotilla
Civil War Sailors of African Descent

Corporal Albert El
Descendant of Civil War Veteran
3rd US Colored Infantry
Vice President, Awards Coordinator
Curator of the US Military Museum
VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA

Corporal Larry Harris
Regimental Treasurer, Co-founder
3rd US Colored Infantry
and Regimental Color Corporal

Private Benjamin F. Beck
3rd US Colored Infantry
Descendant of U.S.C.T. Veteran
Civil War Archivist

Private Joseph Becton
3rd US Colored Infantry
Historian, Impressionist
Co-founder of 3rd US Colored Infantry
Owner/Operator of Joe Becton's Tours

Private Ezekiel Bey
Chaplin 3rd US Colored Infantry
Historian, Impressionist

Private Fred Burton
3rd US Colored Infantry

Private Joseph Certaine
3rd US Colored Infantry
Descendant of two U.S.C.T Veterans
Sgt/Maj. 3rd US Colored Cavalry Regiment ( U.S.C.T. Re-enactors)
Sgt/Maj. 10th US Cavalry Regiment (Indian Wars, Buffalo Soldiers, Re-enactors)

Private Gregory A. Harris
3rd US Colored Infantry
Descendant of Cpl. Isaac Woodfaulk
2nd US Colored Cavalry

Private Robert F. Houston
3rd US Colored Infantry
Descendant of the first African American to
win the Medal of Honor, "Sergeant William H. Carney"
Coordinator of Displays, and Curator of
the African American Circus Museum