Alexandria National Military Cemetery
1450 Wilkes St., Alexandria, Virginia - Among the 3,500 Union soldiers buried there are the graves of 280 men from several regiments of the United States Colored Troops.

Arlington National Cemetery
The Virginia side of the Potomac River, just across the Memorial Bridge from Washington, D.C.- More than 3,800 freedmen and members of the U.S. Colored Troops are buried here, primarily in sections 23 and 27.Three black Congressional Medal of Honor winners, William H. Brown, James H. Harris, and Milton Holland, are buried in those sections. Several black officers are interred in Section 1 including Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Alexander T. Augusta, the first black surgeon in the Union Army and the first black officer buried at the cemetery; Captain O.S.B. Wall of the 104th U.S.C.T,and Lieutenant Frank Welch of the 54TH Massachusetts Volunteers. A portion of the cemetery was once the site of Freedman’s Village, a large camp for self-emancipated and liberated former slaves. “Uncle Jim” Parks, who was born enslaved on the Arlington Plantation about 1843 and lived and worked there for 80 years, is buried in Section 15.

Oak Hill Cemetery
3001 R St., N.W. - This burial ground is the final resting place of General Lorenzo Thomas, who personally supervised the recruitment and training of thousands of black troops in the Mississippi Valley and General William Birney, who helped to organize and train several regiments of black soldiers in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. President Lincoln's second Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, is interred here as well.

Soldier's Home Cemetery
21 Harewood Road, N.W. - Of the more than 14,000 interments in its 15.8 acres, are a few graves of black civil war soldiers. The records at this cemetery, however, do not reflect the races of those interred.

Harmony National Cemetery
7101 Sheriff Road, Landover, MD - Two black Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor winners, Sergeant Major Christian A. Fleetwood and Sergeant Thomas R. Hawkins are buried here. Also buried here is Osborne Perry Anderson, a black survivor of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. Anderson who is believed to have enlisted in the U.S. Colored Troops in 1864.