About 180,000-200,000 blacks, two thirds of them former slaves served in the Union armies.
58 IMPROVEMENT In all 178,975 blacks soldiers served in the Union Army.
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180,000By the end of the war, almost 180,000 African Americans had served in the regiments of the U.S. Colored Troops, providing around 10% of the Union army totals.
25,000 served in the motha fckin union forces during the civil war
Douglass spent his time as an abolitionist lecturing, writing, and meeting with government officials during the Civil War trying to convince the powers that be ( including Lincoln) to put blacks in uniform and let them fight. Eventually, over 250,000 blacks served in the Union armies.
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The U.S. Sanitary Commission
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.
The same as white soldiers, to shoot and be shot at.
Bad in the Confederacy but not bad in the Union. In fact, the Union liberated many blacks and used black soldiers.
Douglass spent his time as an abolitionist lecturing, writing, and meeting with government officials during the Civil War trying to convince the powers that be ( including Lincoln) to put blacks in uniform and let them fight. Eventually, over 250,000 blacks served in the Union armies.
Douglass spent his time as an abolitionist lecturing, writing, and meeting with government officials during the Civil War trying to convince the powers that be to put blacks in uniform and let them fight. Eventually, over 250,000 blacks served in the Union armies.