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Fighting
for Liberty: The Civil War |
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following images are courtesy of the Library
of Congress in Washington, D.C., and New
York Historical Society. You can find a wealth of information
about these images, as well as many others, by searching their respective
Web sites. (Please click each image for a larger view.) |
 Black
infantry. By the end of the Civil War, about 186,000 African
American men had enlisted in the Union Army to fight for their
own liberty. Shown here: District of Columbia. Company E,
4th U.S. Colored Infantry, at Fort Lincoln (29th Regiment
from Connecticut at Beaufort, S.C., 1864. Source: Library
of Congress |
 Sojourner
Truth, Abolitionist and women's rights advocate, 1864. Source:
Library of Congress |
 Plantation
slave quarters, Port Royal Island, S.C., 1862. African Americans
in such communities escaped by the thousands by means of the
Underground Railroad, often to enlist in the war to free all
slaves. Source: Library of Congress |
 Black
American soldiers fighting for the Union at Dutch Gap (Virginia),
1864. Source: New York Historical Society |
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