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Document 6.9 – Establishing Legal Family Ties

Marriage of a Black soldier, 1866, Library of Congress.

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Alfred R. Waud, “Marriage of a colored soldier at Vicksburg by Chaplain Warren of the Freedmen’s Bureau,” wood engraving, Harper’s Weekly 10, no. 496 (June 30, 1866): 412, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division