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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GWYNNE: Hymns of the Republic (2019)

Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War by S.C. Gwynne. Scribner, 2019. Cloth, IBSN: 978-1501116223. $32.00. In Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year…