DENVER, Pa. - A flag that was carried into battle by a black Union regiment during the Civil War and hand-painted by an acclaimed African American artist is going up for auction in Pennsylvania. About 11,000 black union troops trained at Camp William Penn, just outside Philadelphia, on land that belonged to abolitionist and women’s rights advocate Lucretia Mott. They weren’t permitted to join state troops, so federal black regiments were formed, said Joseph Becton, of the African American Museum in Philadelphia. Smith has written extensively about black troops during the Civil War. “I do know that African American troops took special pride in these flags,” he said in an email.

Source: thestar June 10, 2019 05:48 UTC