'Port Hudson' illustration   Save
National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center
Description: Illustration from "The Black Phalanx: A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the Wars of 1775-1812, 1861-'65" by Joseph T. Wilson depicting Port Hudson, the site of the longest siege in American history and a key position of the Confederacy on the Mississippi River during the Civil War. Caption reads: "Brilliant charge of the Phalanx upon the confederate works." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: blackphalanx_17
Subjects: African American soldiers; Civil War 1861-1865
Places: Port Hudson (Louisiana)