Black regiment assaulting Battery Wagner during the US Civil War54th Massachusetts (Colored) Regiment assaulting Confederate stronghold of Fort Wagner, SC. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
EVCW2A-00145Black regiment of the Union army entering Richmond, Virginia, after its own citizens burned ithe city, April 3, 1865, near the end of the Civil War. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration
Skidmore Guard reunion in New York City, 1870sBall of the Skidmore Guard, a black military organization, NYC, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Emancipation Proclamation explained to former slaves in LouisianaUS Army officer meeting with African-Americans in Louisiana after the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
Black soldier statue, Contraband Camp historic site, Corinth MSStatue of freed slave in 1st Alabama Colored Regiment at Union Armys Contraband Camp in Corinth MS, 1863. Digital photograph
EVCW2A-00023Banner of the Third US Colored Troops, an African-American regiment in the Civil War. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of an artifact
EVCW2A-00035African-American troops mustered out of the Union Army at Little Rock, Arkansas after the Civil War. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration
EVCW2D-00197Robert Gould Shaw in command of black troops of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, memorial in Boston, Massachusetts. Digital photograph of the bas-relief sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
EVCW2D-00198Black soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, memorial in Boston, Massachusetts. Digital photograph of a bas-relief sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
EVCW2D-00199Black soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, memorial in Boston, Massachusetts. Digital photograph of the bas-relief sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
EVCW2D-00200Black soldier of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, memorial in Boston, Massachusetts. Digital photograph of a bas-relief sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
EVCW2D-00201Robert Gould Shaw in command of black troops of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, memorial in Boston, Massachusetts. Digital photograph of a bas-relief sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
EVCW2D-00202Robert Gould Shaw in command of black troops of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, memorial in Boston, Massachusetts. Digital photograph of a bas-relief sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
EVCW2D-00203Black soldier of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, memorial in Boston, Massachusetts. Digital photograph of a bas-relief sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
EVCW2D-00204Black soldier of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, memorial in Boston, Massachusetts. Digital photograph of a bas-relief sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
EVCW2D-00205Black soldier of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, memorial in Boston, Massachusetts. Digital photograph of a bas-relief sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
HOUS2A-00123African-American veteran giving children a history lesson on Decoration Day, 1881. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration
