The number of black Union troops is usually given as 180,000, out of about 2.1 million total Union troops.
58 IMPROVEMENT In all 178,975 blacks soldiers served in the Union Army.
The unit was known as the Buffalo Soldiers.
Between 180,000 and 200,000 black soldiers served in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Nearly three million soldiers served in the US Civil War.
Approximately 2 million soldiers served for the Union during the American Civil War, and roughly 750,000 served for the Confederacy. All told, 620,000 soldiers lost their lives during the war.
Due to missing records, an accurate accounting of the number who served for the Confederacy is not available. Estimates are that between 700,00 and 1,250,000 Confederate soldiers served in the American Civil War.
During the course of the US Civil War, up to two million soldiers were at one time or another part of the Union's military forces. This included Freed Black soldiers, volunteers and conscripted soldiers.
They served as doctors and nurses for the wounded soldiers.
Black cavalry soldiers in the Civil War and later periods of history were referred to as "buffalo soldiers." This was in reference to the coarseness of their hair, in comparison to that of a bison.
The black Union soldiers of the Civil War ate what everybody else ate, one of the meals were stewed donkey meat.
They served as spies, nurses, soldiers, scouts, teachers, cooks, seamstresses, and even more. Black women were the superwomen of that time!
they served as nurses,spies , and help get food for the soldiers