The USCT-FFF tour will explore the  political, social, and battlefield experiences of the United States Colored Troops. The tour will take us from Fort Monroe  "The Freedom Fort" to the fall of Richmond, from where the enslaved began the battle to liberate themselves and ended in a battle that liberated a nation. 

The story of civilian blacks will be told during the tour at Fort Monroe at Hampton , at City Point, site of the Army of the Potomac ’s enormous supply depot, and at the National Park Service’s Tredegar Iron Works Visitors Center in Richmond .

We will visit landmarks and battlefields along the way which will reveal how their struggle to become soldiers  transformed the Union army of re-union into an army of liberation, and how their struggle as soldiers  transformed the nation's constitution. The tour will range between Hampton Roads and Richmond , visiting battlefields where the U.S.C.T. fought such as Petersburg , Fort Harrison , New Market Heights and Fort Powhatan . 

Civil War site tours will be conducted by Robert Freis of Civil War Weekend, using the primary source methodology that is the backbone of CWW events. 

The daylong tour of Civil War sites will be augmented with  dinner lectures by Asa Gordon, Sec.Gen. S&DUSCT. The tour of Fri. will conclude with the lecture "The Battle for Education in the USCT". The Sat. tour will conclude with "The USCT Battle for Civil Rights". The tour will include a presentation by Mitch Bowman , Director of Virginia Civil War Trails at the Fort Pocahontas battle site; a book signing by C.R. Gibbs, author of  Black, Copper, & Bright: The District of Columbia's Black Civil War Regiment  and lunch on the porch of the museum house overlooking the scenic James River as guests of Mr. Harrison Tyler. Frank Smith, Executive Director of the African American Civil War Memorial (AACWM) will join us in our opening introductions Thur. eve.. t to tour participants with a screening of the international award winning AACWM documentary "Fight For Freedom".  On the final day of the tour, Sun.,  the 140th anniversary of the U.S. Colored Troops role in the liberation of Richmond, Virginia (April 3rd 1865), we will be joined by Dr. James W. Loewen, author of  Lies My Teacher Told Me, Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong; Lies Across America, What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong  at the Richmond National Battlefield Park’s Civil War Visitor Center at Tredegar Iron Works .