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Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. is a collection of photographs and ephemera related to the American Civil War. The bulk of the collection comprises ambrotypes, tintypes, and cartes de visite of individual soldiers and officers from both sides of the conflict.
Frederick Douglass Unidentified African-American Union veteran. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress Proposals to raise African American regiments in the Union's war efforts were at first met with trepidation by officials within the Union command structure, President Abraham Lincoln included. Concerns over the ...
United States Colored Troops (USCT) were Union Army regiments during the American Civil War that primarily comprised African Americans, with soldiers from other ethnic groups also serving in USCT units. Established in response to a demand for more units from Union Army commanders, USCT regiments, which numbered 175 in total by the end of the ...
Purchased from: Ross J. Kelbaugh: 19th and 20th Century Photographs & Militaria, Baltimore, Md., 2008. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Published in: Kelbuagh, Ross J. The Civil War in Maryland: Rare photographs from the collections of the Maryland Historical Society and its members.
The history of African Americans in the U.S. Civil War is marked by 186,097 (7,122 officers, 178,975 enlisted) [26] African-American men, comprising 163 units, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and many more African Americans served in the Union Navy. Both free African Americans and runaway slaves joined the fight.
The 4th United States Colored Infantry Regiment was an African-American unit of the Union Army during the American Civil War.A part of the United States Colored Troops, the regiment saw action in Virginia and North Carolina, taking part in the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, the capture of Fort Fisher and Wilmington, North Carolina, and the Carolinas Campaign.
The African American Civil War Memorial Museum, in the U Street district of Washington, D.C., recognizes the contributions of the 209,145 members of the United States Colored Troops (USCT). The eponymous memorial, dedicated in July 1998 by the African American Civil War Memorial Freedom Foundation, commemorates the service of 209,145 African ...
Martin Delany was commissioned as a major, the first African-American field officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War and was active in recruiting blacks for the United States Colored Troops. Frederick Douglass, on the other hand, encouraged black men to become soldiers to ensure eventual full citizenship. Volunteers began ...