Celebrating African American Soldiers

African American soldiers in Little Rock (Pulaski County), as drawn by noted Civil War artist Alfred Rudolf Waud for the May 19, 1866, Harper’s Weekly.

African-American soldiers being greeted by a crowd of African-American women and children

Courtesy of Civil War Drawing Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

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Time Period

Civil War through Reconstruction (1861 - 1874)

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Group

Race & Ethnicity

African American

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