"Drummer" Jackson

           "Contraband" Jackson
looks much like the other
young Blacks who flocked
to the Union banners.
He soon became...
"Drummer" Jackson of the

           79th United States Colored
Troops. These photographs
were widely circulated to
encourage Black enlistments
and white support of the Black
regiments.

"The Image of War, Volume 3, The embattled Confederacy", page 232