The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863, specifically called upon freed slaves to enlist in the Union cause.

The museum recently held its grand reopening in Washington’s historic U Street Corridor.

The African American Civil War Memorial, at the corner of Vermont Avenue, 10th St, and U Street NW in Washington, D.C., commemorates the service of 209,145 African-American soldiers and sailors who ...