Katherine Hawkins Author

The 3rd United States Colored Troops - Regimental Flag Front

Katherine Hawkins graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1995 from the University of New York at Albany with a bachelors degree in English and Women's Studies. She also earned a Presidential Award for Undergraduate Research and a Women's Studies Excellence in Scholarship Award.

Following sixteen credits of Masters study in English, Katherine redirected her efforts toward Civil War research, having come into a large collection of family papers.

Consequently, she had done extensive research into the Third Regiment United States Colored Troops (3rd U.S.C.T.) of which her great-grandfather, Lewis Merwin Hobbs, served as Chaplain.

After numerous extended visits to the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and many other research facilities, Katherine has embarked on writing the history of the regiment.

Examining the unit as a whole, she has also amassed over 650 enlisted men's biographies, and those of nearly 60 officers. She has utilized pension files, compiled service records, regimental and departmental records, as well as many contemporary newspapers, letters, and other historical texts.

What has emerged is a substantial and detailed picture of a Civil War regiment of colored troops, the 3rd U.S.C.T.

Education:

SUNY Cobleskill, 1993, associate's degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences.
SUNY Albany, 1995, bachelor's degree in English and Women's Studies; summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa.

Published writings:

Newsletter editor: Abner Doubleday Civil War Roundtable, monthly, October 2007 to present.
Newsletter editor: Town of Fulton Historical Society, quarterly, Spring 2005 to present.
Various articles for SUNY Cobleskill Alumni News, 1993, 1996.
"A Man of Vision, A Man of Faith," a biography of Lewis Merwin Hobbs, for the Lewis Merwin Hobbs Society, Millersville University, Millersville, Pa., 1998.
Various editorials under the heading, "From the Hawk's Nest," and interviews under the heading, "Profiles in Local Music," in The Bridge: Progressive News and Views Connecting Schoharie County, published between August 2006 and April 2007, six issues.
"A Child's Book: A Civil War Soldier," and "Fulton in the Civil War," in People and Places in the Town of Fulton, 2007.