Honoring African American Veterans for Black History Month

Posted 2/1/2012 By Laura June Davis

Happy Black History Month! Today—and throughout the month of February, we honor those African Americans who fought in the Civil War.

Image Credit: "A Negro Regiment in Action," Harper's Weekly, March, 14, 1863.

A Request from the 36 U.S. Colored Regiment

By: Laura June Davis

Our Black History Month celebration contines with this letter written by the 36th U.S. Colored Regiment to the commissioner of the Freedman's Bureau. Stationed near Petersburg, VA at the time, the soldiers lamented the suffering of their families living on Roanoke Island, NC.

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