Black Soldiers and Lady Liberty

Our Black History Month celebration continues with this 1865 drawing of a wounded Union soldier by Thomas Nast.

“Franchise. And not this man?” despite his service and sacrifice.

Image Credit: Harper’s Weekly, August 5, 1865.

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Voice from the Past: “It revolutionized the navies of the world”

We close our Hampton Roads sesquicentennial celebration with this one final quote about the famed clash of the ironclads: THE engagement in Hampton Roads on the 8th of March, 1862,…