'Phalanx River Pickets Defending Themselves' illustration   Save
National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center
Description: Illustration from "The Black Phalanx: A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the Wars of 1775-1812, 1861-'65" by Joseph T. Wilson. Caption reads: "Federal picket boat near Fernandina, Fla., attacked by Confederate sharpshooters stationed in the trees on the banks." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: blackphalanx_39
Subjects: African American soldiers; Civil War 1861-1865
Places: National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center