Black soldiers in navy during civil war2/24/2024 The forays across fields littered with wounded and dead. The gas clouds suddenly appeared from the sky. The foul trenches, with their unending soundtrack of screaming artillery shells and staccato machine-gun fire. He had plenty of stories to tell: There was the terrified young recruit who hauntingly foresaw his own death. regiment of African American soldiers during WWI. But the stories-even in Pippin’s muted, matter-of-fact telling-offer a rare first-person account of the harrowing combat experience of the Harlem Hellfighters, the most celebrated U.S. The humble drawings are rendered in pencil and crayon. The spelling and grammar are often makeshift. So in the decade after the war he captured them, and tamed them, inside sketch-filled composition books, filling page after page with his tidy handwriting. Like many veterans of the killing fields of World War I, Horace Pippin had a tough time shaking off the memories.
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