The scholar, author, curator, and photographer Deborah Willis makes a fascinating contribution to that conversation with The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship, her new book from NYU Press. In it, Willis gives a face and a story to some of the war’s most overlooked figures, from the Black men fighting for their freedom from slavery to the women who educated and tended to those men on the battlefield. As she writes in the preface, The Black Civil War Soldier “examines the public’s memory of the Civil War and how the presence and lack of images of black soldiers influence our modern perceptions of the war in the archive.” While the South has long dominated the narrative around the war with its statues, flags, and films like Gone With the Wind, the picture of what happened over those four destructive years has never quite been complete.
Combining poignant portraits of newly minted soldiers with extensive letters, diary entries, newspaper clippings, and other records, The Black Civil War Soldier pays tribute to heroes largely obscured. Here, Vogue speaks to Willis about the volume.
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