History & Culture, Lincoln's proclamation to establish a "Bureau of Colored Troops", su nps.gov, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 2017. URL consultato il 12 settembre 2017 (archiviato il 6 agosto 2017).
«Inscribed on the Wall of Honor are the names of 209,145 soldiers of the USCT 175 regiments, 7,000 white Officers and 2,145 Hispanic surnames. Also honored are the approximate 20,000 Navy sailors whose names are not yet on the wall because the Navy was not segregated.»