Khabir Shareef tells the story of Union Maj. Martin R. Delany, the highest-ranking field officer of African descent at the end of the Civil War, during the ninth year of the Black and Blue Civil War Living History Program Saturday at Historic Jefferson College.

Carl Davis walks through trees at Historic Jefferson College while portraying a soldier in the 52nd Regiment of the U.S. Colored Troops Infantry.

Reenactors gather on stage to take a photograph after the program.