File:18630721 To Colored Men! Freedom, Protection, Pay, and a Call to Military Duty! - U.S. National Archives.jpg

Original file(2,113 × 3,048 pixels, file size: 597 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Commons-logo.svg This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below.
Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.

Summary

Description
English: Recruitment poster for recently freed slaves to fight for the Union Army in the U.S. Civil War
  • U.S. National Archives source states: "This poster was used to recruit recently freed slaves to fight in the Civil War for the Union Army. The men were recruited for military duty with the promise of freedom, protection and pay."

Rediscovery #: 07231

Job A1 09-069 Civil War
Date
Source
Author United States Government

Licensing

Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. Note: This only applies to original works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision. This template also does not apply to postage stamp designs published by the United States Postal Service since 1978. (See § 313.6(C)(1) of Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices). It also does not apply to certain US coins; see The US Mint Terms of Use.

Captions

Recruitment poster for recently freed slaves to fight for the Union Army in the U.S. Civil War

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

image/jpeg

21 July 1863Gregorian

0a556b85618956eb7ee0b97231b49879195eb11a

611,832 byte

3,048 pixel

2,113 pixel

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeDimensionsUserComment
current21:29, 25 April 20212,113 × 3,048 (597 KB)RCraig09Version 2: reduced file size at tinyjpg.com

The following page uses this file: