Our fellow Americans from the isles of the sea - Porto Rico Battalion, inaugural parade, Washington, D.C.

Colored pickets on duty near Dutch Gap

Pontoon boat ready for the march. Hundreds of these boats and timbers kept along with our army

A pontoon boat on wheels

A group of "contrabands"

A Negro family coming into the Union lines

A group of "contrabands"

Contraband foreground

Comrades will all remember how we made a rush for the old well to fill our canteens, when on the march. This is the way it was

Execution of a deserter, Alexandria, Va.

Rebel artillery soldiers, killed in the trenches of "Fort Hell," at the storming of Petersburgh, Va., April 2d, 1865 The one in the foreground has U.S. belts on, probably taken from a Union soldier prisoner, his uniform is grey cloth trimmed with red. This view was taken the morning after the fight.

Bomb-proof quarters of Major Strong, at Dutch Gap, Va., July, 1864

Making coffee. On the lines before Petersburg, Va., 1864

Classic ruins of the Bank of Chambersburgh

The slave market, Atlanta, Ga.

Contraband camp - Harper's Ferry, Va.

Slave pen, Alexandria, Va.

Slave pen, Alexandria, Va.

Slave Pen, Alexandria, Va.

Slave Pen, Alexandria, Va.

Uncle Ned's school

Camp scene at Fortress Monroe

Camp scene at Fortress Monroe

Camp scene at Fortress Monroe, Va.

Freedom on the plantation

A plantation road through the "live oaks," Port Royal, S.C.

Colard Foakes [i.e. Colored Folks] church, Beaufort, S.C.

Avenue at Thorpe's, St. Helena Island, S.Car. [i.e. South Carolina]

Thorpe with Negros working cotton, St. Helena Is. [i.e. Island], S.C.

The Grove