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Opinion/Conley: A salute to RI Cong George O Shaunessy

Opinion/Conley: A salute to RI Cong George O Shaunessy
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What Rare Images of Black Military Surgeons Reveal About the Civil War Era—and Today

What Rare Images of Black Military Surgeons Reveal About the Civil War Era and Today Time 2 days ago © Oblate Sisters of Providence Archives (2); National Archives When shots were fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, the Civil War began and so did a new era in American photojournalism. But even though the conflict was the first U.S. war to be systematically photographed, photographs of Black Civil War soldiers, 160 years later, are hard to find. Even harder to find are photographs of a small subset of those troops: the 13 men who, out of more than 180,000 Black Americans who served in the Union Army, are known to have done so as surgeons, according Jill L. Newmark’s research for the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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What Rare Images of Black Military Surgeons Reveal About the Civil War Era—and Today

What Rare Images of Black Military Surgeons Reveal About the Civil War Era—and Today
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These forgotten soldiers might have been the first Black troops to wear Union blue in combat

These forgotten soldiers might have been the first Black troops to wear Union blue in combat February 18 An engraving of 1st South Carolina Volunteers of African Decent at the Emancipation Day Ceremony at Camp Saxton, South Carolina, Jan. 1, 1863. (Library of Congress) A retired Army colonel and his former West Point roommate believe they have discovered a nearly forgotten and possibly first Black unit in the Civil War and are spearheading efforts to see the history-making soldiers honored nearly 160 years later. The career soldiers-turned-amateur-historians, retired Col. Chris Allen and retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, former commander of U.S. Army Europe, say the members of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers of African Descent could be the first Black soldiers to wear Union uniforms, perhaps a year before the famed 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, which was profiled in the acclaimed 1989 film “Glory.”

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