![Photo by: history.net Confederate officer, Sgt. Andrew Martin Chandler (left), with his slave, Silas (right). The image is the only Confederate photograph in Rod Coddington's book, "African American Faces of the Civil War." Born a slave, Silas, writes Coddington, was "one of thousands of slaves who served as [body servants] during the war."](https://i0.wp.com/aligningwithin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/BlkConfederates_1200x480.jpg?fit=1200%2C480&ssl=1)
When Deborah Willis was growing up, her teachers seldom mentioned the black soldiers who’d fought in the American Civil War.
Years later, when the Philadelphia native became a curator—working first at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and then at the Smithsonian Institution—she found herself intrigued by photographs of these individuals, whose stories are still so often overlooked.
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