Edward Munk
Edward Safford
Daniel K. Hassler
To Do Right And Serve My Country
Jonathan Vallette
Eli McMillan
Officers of the 14th United States Colored Infantry BY ROBERT HANCOCK
Andrew Snyder
W
ithin the John Motley Collection at The American Civil War Museum resides a selection of 22 Carte-de-Visite photographs assembled by Edward Munk of fellow officers who served in the 14th United States Colored Infantry.
George W. Boutwell
In May 1863, the U.S. War Department established the Bureau of Colored Troops to recruit African American soldiers, many of them formerly enslaved, to serve in the Union Army. The soldiers would be black, but they were to be led by white officers. Many bristled at the idea of armed black men serving in the army and held the stereotypical discriminatory view that they would either run amok or prove too lazy to be of any real use. The army and the public had to feel that they were at least led by competent (and white) officers. It
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