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"The magnificent behavior of the Second Louisiana colored regiment at Port Hudson recalls the fact that it is just two years since a warning ... that if this war lasted we should arm the negroes ...was received with shrieks of indignation ..."

Harper's Weekly
June 20, 1863, page 386
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Emancipation
"Work's Over"
December 21, 1861, page 801 (Illustration)
"Bobolitionists"
December 21, 1861, page 816 (Cartoon)
"The Great Negro Emancipation"
December 20, 1862, page 816 (Cartoon)
"Emancipation"
January 24, 1863, pages 56, 57 (Illustration and News Story)
"The Effects of the Proclamation - Freed Negroes Coming Into Our Lines..."
February 21, 1863, page 116 (Illustration and News Story)
"Colored Troops...Liberating Slaves..."
January 23, 1864, page 52 (Illustration)
"General Sherman's Rear-Guard"
April 2, 1864, page 212 (Illustration)
"The Newest Thing Out"
March 12, 1864, page 174 (Advertisement)
"The Freedmen's Song"
June 24, 1865, page 386 (Verse)
 
Draft Riots
"The Riots at New York"
August 1, 1863, page 484 (Illustration and News Story)
"The Riots at New York - The Rioters Burning and Sacking the Colored Orphan Asylum"
August 1, 1863, page 493 (Illustration and News Story)
"How To Escape The Draft"
August 1, 1863, page 496 (Cartoon)
 
Black Military Service
"A Consistent Negrophobist"
August 16, 1862, page 528 (Cartoon)
"Negro Troops"
June 20, 1863, page 386 (Editorial)
"To Arms! To Arms!"
July 18, 1863, page 460 (Illustration and News Story)
"The Battle at Milliken's Bend"
July 4, 1863, page 428 (Illustration and News Story)
"The Attack on Fort Wagner"
August 8, 1863, page 509 (Illustration and News Story)
"In the Trenches before Wagner"
August 29, 1863, page 553 (Illustration)
"A Gross Injustice"
February 13, 1864, page 98 (Editorial)
"U.S. Army Agency"
September 17, 1864, page 608 (Advertisement)
"A Man Knows A Man"
April 22, 1865, page 256 (Cartoon)
 
Military Atrocities
"Rebel Atrocities"
May 21, 1864, pages 328, 329 (Illustration and News Story)
"The Massacre at Fort Pillow"
April 30, 1864, page 284 (Illustration and News Story)
 

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