FACT #12
There were 3,265 black men from Washington, DC that served in the Civil War, with black women serving as nurses and other ways in the war effort.

Of the more than 209,000 black men who served as Civil War soldiers; 3,265 were from Washington, DC. Their names appear on the African American Civil War Memorial at Vermont Avenue and U Street NW. Black women served as nurses and other ways in the war effort. Elizabeth Keckley, the formerly enslaved memoirist, organized the Contraband Relief Association to help women and children; Sojourner Truth worked at Freedmen’s Village in Arlington.

Source: https://emancipation.dc.gov/page/history-emancipation-day

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