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Puerto Rico remained part of the Union, though hispanics fought on both sides.NEW RESPONDENT

Puerto Rico didn't partake in the American Civil War. The archipelago of Puerto Rico became American Unincorporated Territory only in 1898, after the Spanish-American War, with the Treaty of Paris.

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