'You Must Throw Away That Cigar, Sir!' 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: "A Phalanx guard refusing to allow General U. S. Grant to pass by the commissary store-house till he had thrown away his cigar." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: blackphalanx_48
Subjects: African American soldiers; Civil War 1861-1865; Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885
Places: National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center