The U.S. Colored Troops were regiments that consisted mainly of African Americans along with other minority groups who wanted to fight in the Civil War. These troops made up around 10% of the Union troops and 25% of the Union Navy. After the Emancipation Proclamation was passed by Lincoln on January 1st, 1863 freeing all of the slaves in the Confederacy, there was a call for African Americans to join the militia. The 54th Massachusetts Infantry was the first official African American regiment. One of the African Americans who fought for the Union was Thomas Hyer. He was born around 1835-36 and joined the army when he was around 27. Thomas Hyer joined the 4th U.S. Colored Infantry around 1863 and for a time, his regiment was assigned to guard the nation's capital. All of these troops helped the Union gain power over the Confederacy so that the country could be whole again.
Hyer History
Walter Hyer was a visionary who came to America around 1650 from Kingston, Surrey, England. He brought his wife and son with him and settled in New York, New York. There have also been immigrants who have come to the United States from Switzerland, Norway, Germany, Ireland, Prussia, Sweden, and France. The last name Hyer can be found predominantly in the U.S., but also in Canada, Australia, Great Britain, and Germany,
Charles I Triple Portrait
Charles I in Three Positions, also known as the Triple portrait of Charles I, is an oil painting of Charles I of England by Flemish artist Sir Anthony Van Dyck, showing the King from three viewpoints: left full profile, face on, and right three quarter profile. [more]
The Shrimp Girl
The Shrimp Girl is a painting by the English artist William Hogarth. It was painted around 1740–45, and is held by the National Gallery, London. [more]
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
Mr and Mrs Andrews is an oil on canvas portrait of about 1750 by Thomas Gainsborough, now in the National Gallery, London. [more]
Flatford Mill
Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) is an oil painting by English artist John Constable, painted in 1816. It is Constable's largest exhibition canvas to be painted mainly outdoors, the first of his large "six-foot" paintings [more]
The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
The Hireling Shepherd
This is a painting by William Holman Hunt, a leading British Pre-Raphaelite.
Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]