“A Negro Family Coming into Union Lines.” Photograph found at: African-American History.
Tag Archives: Civil War

Dark Past/ Civil War
Field Hospital at Savage Station, Va., after the battle of June 27, 1862. Shows scores of men, black and white, stretched out on the ground. A black soldier sits in lower left foreground. Photograph found at: African-American History.

Dark Past/ Civil War
“Camp U.S. Engineers, near Brandy Station, Va., March, 1864″ (title from print). A black man holding a horse in a field. Photograph found at: African-American History.

Dark Past/ Civil War
“Negro Teamsters” (title on print). Title from Milhollen and Mugridge: “Bermuda Hundred, Va. African-American teamsters near the signal tower.” Photograph found at: African-American History.

Dark Past/ Civil War
Tent life of the 31st Pennsylvania Regiment” [later the 82nd Pennsylvania Regiment]. Taken at Queen’s Farm, vicinity of Fort Slocum, Washington, D.C. Photograph found at: African-American History.

Dark Past/ Civil War
“Hanging a Deserter (Petersburg, Va.). Execution of a colored soldier, William Johnson, June 20, 1864. Vicinity of Petersburg, Va. Soldier, face covered with cloth, hanging from scaffold. White soldiers sit nearby under tree.” Photograph found at: African-American History.

Dark Past/ Civil War
Freedmen in Richmond, Virginia. Photograph found at: African-American History.