Map of states that seceded from the Union in 1861.

Elderly Black man with spectacles reading a newspaper by candlelight. Watercolor, circa 1863. Henry L. Stephens, artist.

James E. Taylor. "The Freedmen's Union Industrial School, Richmond, Va." From Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 22nd, 1866.

The arrival of a fugitive slave family behind Union lines, January 1st, 1863.

A former slave with the horn with which slaves were called. Near Marshall, Texas.