'Phalanx Regiment Recieving its Flags' 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. Caption reads: "Presentation of colors to the 20th United States Colored Infantry, Col. Bertram, in N. Y., March 5th 1864." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: blackphalanx_21
Subjects: African American soldiers; Civil War 1861-1865
Places: New York