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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- AACWM_190920_08.JPG: Sailors
African descent sailors served in an integrated navy as boys, landsmen, stewards, cooks, seamen, firemen, pilots, navigators, and engineer officers.
- AACWM_190920_10.JPG: With Freedom Came
The Greater You
- AACWM_190920_14.JPG: Pioneers
Pioneers, also known as engineers, cut roads for ambulances, and built bridges, railroads and other construction projects.
- AACWM_190920_16.JPG: With Freedom Came
Their Community
- AACWM_190920_21.JPG: Musicians
Field musicians served as signalmen in the infantry, cavalry and artillery.
- AACWM_190920_23.JPG: With Freedom Came
Their Businesses
- AACWM_190920_32.JPG: Artillery
There were thirteen artillery regiments and one independent battery in the Bureau of the United States Colored Troops.
- AACWM_190920_34.JPG: With Freedom Came
Their Cultural Icons
- AACWM_190920_38.JPG: Cavalry
There were seven cavalry regiments in the Bureau of the United States Colored Troops.
- AACWM_190920_40.JPG: With Freedom Came
Their Schools
- AACWM_190920_45.JPG: Infantry
There were one hundred and forty-two infantry regiments in the Bureau of the United States Colored Troops.
- AACWM_190920_47.JPG: With Freedom Came
Their Churches
- AACWM_190920_81.JPG: African American Civil War Memorial
- Wikipedia Description: African American Civil War Memorial Museum
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The African American Civil War Memorial Museum consists of a memorial and a museum that commemorate the service of 209,145 African-American soldiers and about 7,000 white and 2,145 Hispanic soldiers, amounting to nearly 220,000, plus the approximate 20,000 unsegregated Navy sailors, who fought for the Union in the American Civil War, mostly among the 175 regiments of United States Colored Troops (USCT).
The Memorial is at the corner of Vermont Avenue, 10th Street, and U Street NW in Washington, D.C.. It holds a 9-foot bronze statue, The Spirit of Freedom, by Ed Hamilton of Louisville, Kentucky, commissioned by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in 1993 and completed in 1997. The memorial includes a walking area with curved panel short walls inscribed with the names of the men who served in the war.
The Museum is across the street from the Memorial, at 1925 Vermont Ave. NW. Plans are in place for it to move into the former Grimké School, at 1923 Vermont Ave. NW. As of 2018 the Museum is housed in the former gymnasium of the school, which was converted into an office building in the 1980s.
Both are served by the U Street station on the Washington Metro, served by the Yellow and Green Lines.
History
The museum (2011)
The related African American Civil War Museum is located directly across from the memorial at 1925 Vermont Avenue. From July 16–18, 2011, it celebrated its grand opening in a new and permanent facility at this address, with a weekend of speakers and events devoted to racial reconciliation. It plans four years of activities to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the war and African-American contributions.
The museum opened in January 1999 in a building two blocks west of the memorial in the historic U Street Corridor, a neighborhood traditionally the heart of African-American entertainment and theater in Washington. The museum enables visitors, researchers, and descendants of the United States Colored Troops to better understand their stories. It displays photographs, newspaper articles, and replicas of period clothing, and uniforms and weaponry of the Civil War.
The African American Civil War Memorial Registry at the museum documents the family trees of more than 2,000 descendants of those men who served with the USCT. Other descendants may register. Visitors can easily search the database to find ancestors and relatives registered in the Descendants Registry.
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