African-American Soldiers in the Civil War

Civil War Photos, Black History Month
Library of Congress

An unidentified African-American soldier from B Company, 103rd Regiment stands with a bayonet and scabbard wearing a forage cap from the U.S. Colored Troops. The photograph is a hand-colored, quarter-plate tintype.

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