Protection of Colored Troops

ID: 577
This file appears in: Andrew Jackson Smith

This broadside explains that the United States expected the Confederacy to treat captured African American soldiers as prisoners of war, not as escaped slaves. Courtesy of the National Archives.

This file appears in: Andrew Jackson Smith

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #2107 in Lyon County commemorates Andrew Jackson Smith, an African American soldier who won the Medal of Honor for heroism in the Civil War. Smith, the son of an enslaved African…