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.
What Rare Images of Black Military Surgeons Reveal About the Civil War Era—and Today
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How Black soldiers helped end the US Civil War Jacqueline Cutler, New York Daily News © NYU Press/TNS The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship by Deborah Willis; NYU Press.
“The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship” by Deborah Willis; NYU Press (256 pages, $35)
It wasn’t just a war for freedom. It was a war for the future.
Black soldiers during the Civil War weren’t just fighting for themselves. They were fighting for their children and all who came after. They were fighting for tomorrow.
“The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship,” by Deborah Willis, delivers much more than the formal, carefully posed photographs of men in uniforms and their heartfelt letters home and to the world.