All union soldiers walked to where they were going. Officers used horses.
Port Hudson, Mississippi
African-Americans fought mostly for the patriots in the American Revolution.
In 1862, Congress passed a law to allow African Americans to join the Union Army.
The Union was the North at the Battle of Gettysburg. The Army of the Potomac was the army on the field.
That African Americans be accepted into the Union military Allowed African-Americans to participate as war laborers and soldiers
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because they opposed slavery
they were in the war
That African Americans be accepted into the Union military Allowed African-Americans to participate as war laborers and soldiers
African Americans could not join until after the Emancipation Proclamation.
That African Americans be accepted into the Union military Allowed African-Americans to participate as war laborers and soldiers
They sometimes grew food for the Union army