Monument to the 26th Regiment United States Colored Infantry (Ithaca, New York)

Monument to the 26th Regiment United States Colored Infantry (Ithaca, New York)

Subject (Topic)
African Americans--History
New York--Ithaca
Public sculpture
United States Colored Troops

Subject (Object Type)
Commemorative sculpture

Polished black granite in the shape of an upright headstone with an arched top, is dedicated to the memory of the twenty-six men of the 26th Regiment Infantry U.S. Colored Troops who enlisted between 1863 and 1864 at the St. James A.M.E. Zion Church, Ithaca, New York. The work includes an etched image of two United States Colored Troops soldiers, as well as the names of men who enlisted.

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Photograph: Wikimedia Commons

2009

JPEG

English

Visual Arts-Sculpture

St. James A.M.E. Zion Church, 116 Cleveland Avenue, Ithaca, New York, 14850, United States

Inscription on front of the black granite:
Dedicated to the 26 Soldiers of the 26th Regiment
United States Colored Infantry
Who Enlisted Between Dec. 3, 1863 and Feb. 18, 1864
At St. James A.M.E. Zion Church, Ithaca, NY
To Fight for God and Liberty.

Henry W. Adams • Henry Allen • Morgan E. Dennis • Isaac Desmond • Sylvester T. Dorsey • Henry L. Green • Jacob Guess • George W. Guinn • Daniel Johnson • Jacob Johnson • George E. Jones • Thomas McChesney • George A. Richardson • John R. Ross • Henry Selby • Charles S. Shaw • Alonzo Smith • Henry Smith • James E. L. Smith • John Smith • John F. Smith • Joseph B. Smith • Edward Sorrell • John Sorrell • John Tyler • Zacharial Tyler

Organized at Riker's Island, New York Harbor, Feb. 27, 1864. Ordered to Dept. of the South, April, 1864. Served at Beaufort, SC. The Unit was discharged at Brownsville, Texas on Aug. 18, 1865.

Black granite

Alan Skerrett, Jr, ed. "Monuments to the United States Colored Troops (USCT) [African American Civil War Soldiers: The List." Jubilo! The Emancipation Century Blog, May 30, 2011. Accessed February 11, 2026. https://jubiloemancipationcentury.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/monuments-to-the-united-states-colored-troops-usct-the-list/.

Renée Ater

Sculpture