180,000
By 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.
About 180,000-200,000 blacks, two thirds of them former slaves served in the Union armies.
25,000 served in the motha fckin union forces during the civil war
58 IMPROVEMENT In all 178,975 blacks soldiers served in the Union Army.
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.
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.
Bad in the Confederacy but not bad in the Union. In fact, the Union liberated many blacks and used black soldiers.
Harriet Tubman served as a spy and scout for the Union Army during the Civil War.
No, he served as a union officer during the war .
Abraham Lincoln
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.
The number of African Americans who served during the Civil War was between 179,000 and 180,000. The Civil War lasted for a little over 4 years.