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African Americans During
The Civil War
Danni Lopez- Rogina
View On African American
Soldiers
• "Once let the black man
get upon his person the
brass letters, U.S., let him
get an eagle on his button,
and a musket on his
shoulder and bullets in his
pockets, and there is no
power on earth which can
deny that he has earned
the right to citizenship in
the United States." - Frederick Douglass
A group of "contrabands."
[Stereograph] ca.1861 published later
Black Slaves
who escaped
to Union
Lines were
called
Contrabands.
There are 3
unnamed
contrabands
as the bottom
of this
picture.
This has
images of
white officers
of the 2nd
Rhode Island
Camp at
Camp
Brightwood in
the District of
Columbia.
29th Regiment From Connecticut
Part of Company E, 4th U.S. Colored
Infantry
Numbers
• July 17, 1862 - Congress passed two acts
allowing the enlistment of African-Americans,
but official enrollment happened only after
September, 1862 issuance of the Emancipation
Proclamation.
• 180,000 African-Americans comprising 163 units
served in the Union Army during the Civil War
• More served in the Union Navy
• The most widely known battle fought by
African-Americans was the assault on Fort
Wagner, South Carolina, by the 54th
Massachusetts on July 18, 1863. The 54th
volunteered to lead the assault on the
strongly-fortified Confederate positions. The
soldiers of the 54th scaled the fort's parapet,
and were only driven back after brutal handto-hand combat.
Buffalo Soldiers
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Buffalo Soldiers originally were members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United
States Army, formed on September 21, 1866 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The nickname was
given by the Native American tribes they fought; the term eventually came to include six
units:
9th Cavalry Regiment
10th Cavalry Regiment
24th Infantry Regiment
25th Infantry Regiment
27th Cavalry Regiment
28th Cavalry Regiment
Cathay Williams aka. Willam Cathay
• First African American
female to enlist in U.S.
Army
• Posed as a man under
pseudonym
• She was found out
when hospitalized and
discharged
• Company A, 38th U.S.
Infantry Regiment,
Buffalo Soldiers
Sources
• http://www.americancivilwar.com/colored/histofc
oloredtroops.html
• http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/history/aa_history.ht
m
• http://www.greatdreams.com/war/infantry54.jpg
• Liberty. Equality. Power. Textbook
• Frankie Baker
• Wikipedia.org