Credit: Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, NPG.95.46
The first African-American field officer of high rank, Delany was commissioned as a Major in the Union Army in 1865.
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Martin Robinson Delany, by Unidentified Artist, Publisher John Smith, c. 1865
Credit: Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, NPG.95.46
The first African-American field officer of high rank, Delany was commissioned as a Major in the Union Army in 1865.
