Nelson B. Bartram (January 7, 1832 - December 25, 1886) was a teacher, official, and colonel in the U.S. Army who commanded United States Colored Troops during the American Civil War.

A statue of him by John Massey Rhind stands in Port Chester, New York.

[3][4] When the American Civil War broke out Bartram joined the Union Army, being commissioned as Captain of Company B of the 17th New York Infantry Regiment on May 22, 1861.

He spent much of 1862 on the staff of General Daniel Butterfield and continued to serve with his unit until it was mustered out in June 1863.

[5] After the war he served as a clerk and then deputy collector at a Customs House in New York.