U.S. Colored Troops

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           African American troops, Aiken's Landing, Va., 1864.

 
 
Paying the teamsters in the Army of the Potomac, 1863.
  Burial detail at Cold Harbor battlefield, 1864.

 
 
     Black body servant with Union troops
     in Virginia, 1863.
 
     Pvt. William Johnson, 23d USCT, executed
     for rape, Jordan's Farm, Petersburg, Va.,
     June 1864.