'On Picket' illustration   Save
National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center
Description: Illustration of soldiers on the picket line 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. Members of the picket line functioned as scouts and guards against enemy movements. Soldiers were regularly rotated. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: blackphalanx_33
Subjects: African American soldiers; African American men; Civil War 1861-1865
Places: National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center