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Showing posts with label black soldiers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black soldiers. Show all posts
Friday, March 29, 2013

Civil War Photo Friday: Hanging out at the cooks galley

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Napoleon said an army travels on its stomach, and the Union army was no exception. Here we see Company F, Third Division of the New Hampsh...
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Friday, March 1, 2013

Civil War Photo Friday: Black Union soldiers kidnapped for the Neo-Confederate cause

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This photo shows a unit of black soldiers and their white officer. It's obviously a Union unit because of the officer's uniform an...
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Saturday, December 22, 2012

The First Kansas Colored Volunteers gets its first book (sort of)

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I've written here before about the First Kansas Colored Volunteers , a unit mostly comprised of runaway slaves who had the honor of b...
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Friday, November 16, 2012

Wild West Photo Friday: Black Cowboys

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Wait, isn't this supposed to be Civil War Photo Friday ? Well, I decided to mix it up a bit this week. In honor of the First Kansas Co...
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

A faked Civil War photo

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Yesterday I posted a cropped version of the above photograph. It was titled "Confederate and Union dead side by side" and was t...
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Friday, August 17, 2012

Civil War Photo Friday: Banner of the 22nd US Colored Troops

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Here's another great photo courtesy the Library of Congress . It's the regimental flag of the 22nd Regiment US Colored Troops from N...
Friday, July 27, 2012

Civil War Photo Friday: The Faces of Black Soldiers

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This photo has been published a lot. It shows Company E of the 4th U.S. Colored Infantry, at Fort Lincoln, District of Columbia, and is free...
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Friday, May 18, 2012

Civil War Photo Friday: Black Sailor

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A couple of days ago wargamer, blogger, and Canadian army chaplain Mad Padre asked me about black sailors in the Union Navy, so for this we...
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Friday, April 6, 2012

F is for First Kansas Colored Volunteers

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For me, the most fascinating unit in the Civil War west of the Mississippi is the First Kansas Colored Volunteers . Most of the soldiers for...
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Monday, March 26, 2012

Shafting the rebels in the Civil War!

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I introduced a new character in the still-untitled sequel to my Civil War novel A Fine Likeness . He's a sergeant from the First Kansas ...
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Friday, November 4, 2011

Civil War Video Friday: Rapping about the 54th Massachusetts

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This is usually Civil War Photo Friday, but I just heard about this great video about the famous black regiment, the 54th Massachusetts. It...