'The Recruiting Office' 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: "Negroes enlisting in the army, and being examined by surgeons." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: blackphalanx_49
Subjects: African American soldiers; Civil War 1861-1865
Places: National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center