The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship

by Deborah Willis

Book Overview

A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers

Though both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their initial calls to arms, many of the men who eventually served were black. Simultaneously, photography culture blossomed--marking the Civil War as the first conflict to be extensively documented through photographs. In The Black Civil War Soldier,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479809004
• ISBN13: 9781479809004
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.2" x 10.1"