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Photo of William H. Carney courtesy of Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University; photos of Robert Blake, Joachim Pease, James Mifflin, Aaron Anderson, Pompey Factor, George Watson, and Cornelius Charlton courtesy of the US Navy Archives; photos of John Lawson, James Mifflin, Milton Holland, Christian Fleetwood, Powhatan Beaty, Alexander Kelly, James Gardiner, James Harris, Aaron Anderson, John Denny, Thomas Shaw, Isaiah Mays, Dennis Bell, and John Warren Jr. courtesy of the Library of Congress; photos of Thomas Hawkins and Robert Pinn, public domain; photo of Andrew Jackson Smith courtesy of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society; photos of Brent Woods, William McBryar, John Fox, Charles Thomas, Edward Carter, Vernon Baker, Milton Olive III, Lawrence Joel, and Oscar Austin courtesy of the US Army Archives; photo of Edward Baker: National Archives; photo of James Anderson Jr. courtesy of the US Marines; photo of Dwight Johnson courtesy of the White House Photograph Office; photo of Melvin Morris courtesy of US Army Archives/photo by Sgt. Mikki L. Sprenkle