
A tintype of a Black Civil War soldier. Scroll through to see more images from "The Black Civil War Soldier: A History of Conflict and Citizenship."

Sergeant Major William L. Henderson and hospital steward Thomas H. S. Pennington.

A carte de visite of Lieutenant Peter Vogelsang, who served with the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment.

During the Civil War, African Americans also served as medical workers, some of whom are pictured at a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1863.

A portrait of Union soldier Christian Fleetwood.

A photograph of an unidentified young African American soldier wearing Union uniform.

A drummer who served with the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment.

A portrait of Harriet Tubman, who served in the Union Army and rescued enslaved people through a secretive network called the Underground Railroad.

A carte de visite photograph of Philadelphia Press reporter Thomas Morris Chester, the first Black war correspondent for a major daily newspaper.

Enslaved men, women and children photographed standing in front of buildings on Smith's Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina.

A portrait of Helen "Amelia" Loguen, daughter of Underground Railroad conductor Reverend Jermain Loguen and the wife of Frederick Douglass' eldest son Lewis.

"The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" by Deborah Willis, is published by New York University Press.


