StartFragment"The Phoenix Historical Society of Tarboro, NC November Educational program will feature Dr. James K. Bryant II, author of "The 36th Infantry United States Colored Troops in the Civil War". The program is scheduled for Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 7 PM. The meeting will be held at the Edgecombe County Veterans Military Museum, 106 W Chruch Street, Tarboro, NC . The topic of discussion will be: The 36th US Colored Troops & the Battle of New Market Heights.

When: November 9, 2013 at 3:00 PM What: First North Carolina Regiment, Colored Volunteers (NCCV) North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Unveiling Ceremony Where: Academy Green on Hancock & New Streets in New Bern, NC Exactly 150 years ago in New Bern, North Carolina, during May and June of 1863, formerly enslaved men from New Bern and across eastern North Carolina were responding to the appeals of Federal officials to join the Union infantry as part of