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What Rare Images of Black Military Surgeons Reveal About the Civil War Era—and Today


What Rare Images of Black Military Surgeons Reveal About the Civil War Era and Today
Time
2 days ago
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When shots were fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, the Civil War began and so did a new era in American photojournalism. But even though the conflict was the first U.S. war to be systematically photographed, photographs of Black Civil War soldiers, 160 years later, are hard to find.
Even harder to find are photographs of a small subset of those troops: the 13 men who, out of more than 180,000 Black Americans who served in the Union Army, are known to have done so as surgeons, according Jill L. Newmark’s research for the U.S. National Library of Medicine. ....

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