Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. Tags: Blacks, Civil War (US) (1861-65), Douglass, Frederick, Immigration and Emigration, Pittsburgh (Pa), Slavery “We most heartily endorse the earnest and energetic efforts being put forth by Mr. Delaney, and John Jones of this city, towards the enlistment of volunteers for the Artillery Brigade, to be composed entirely of colored men,” announced The Chicago Tribune on Oct. 2, 1863. The article focused black Union recruitment in the city, a process that had been in full swing for months across the North and Union-occupied South. But the paper was burying the lede: by the fall of 1863 Mr. Delany – Martin Robison Delany, the nation’s foremost...
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