Faces of the Civil War

Drummer Boy
This young former slave, known as Jackson, was attached to the 79th Infantry, U.S. Colored Troops, out of Port Hudson, La. This photo of him in a Union uniform was widely displayed alongside another shot, taken of him shortly after he was freed, that showed him in a disheveled state. The before-and-after shots were among the Union's most effective propaganda images.

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