'Receiving the President' 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: "Abraham Lincoln riding through Richmond, April 4th, 1865, after the evacuation of the city by the Confederates." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: blackphalanx_11
Subjects: African American soldiers; African American men; Civil War 1861-1865; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Places: National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center