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Lewis Henry Douglass (1840–1908) was the oldest son of Frederick Douglass and his first wife Anna Murray Douglass. He joined the United States Army's 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment on March 25, 1863, only two months after the Emancipation Proclamation allowed African Americans to see combat. After the Civil War, he worked as an educator.
Lewis Douglass in Southern Victory[]
Lewis Douglass talked with his father Frederick Douglass after the end of the Second Mexican War, discussing the elder Douglass' experiences in the field and the most likely long-term consequences of the peace which had been reached. Lewis suggested that with the tide of North American history going against the Negro, the family should move to Liberia, a proposition which his father firmly rejected.
