Because they wanted revenge to fight back to the confederacy.To end slavery.
About 180,000-200,000 blacks, two thirds of them former slaves served in the Union armies.
Your "facts" are in error.Between 65,000 and 100,000 blacks served in the Confederate Army. Let me restate that: as many as 100,000 blacks served in the Army of the South. These men were cooks, musicians, and soldiers.Of the 179,000 blacks who served in all aspects of the Union Army and 19,000 who served in the Navy, 40,000 died in service.Where the majority of Northern blacks volunteered, many of the Southern blacks were pressed into service, although quite a few volunteered to serve in the Confederate cause.
Blacks
Yes. After the Union army defeated the Southern soldiers in battles, many blacks left the places where they were kept as slaves and went over to the Union lines, showing the Union soldiers places in the nearby area that might help them to win the war. Many former black slaves joined General William T. Sherman's army as he marched through the south from Georgia, to South and North Carolina.
Frederick Douglass
The Union allowed blacks to serve in the army. The Confederates did not allow slaves to fight in combat so they only used blacks for non-combat issues such as servants.
More rights for former slaves
blacks contribute to the civil war by being part of the war many of them died on the side of the union because the union was against slavery and most of them wanted to be free and have rights. More black people volunteered to be in war than whites
Whites and blacks worked together in various ways, such as participating in the Underground Railroad to help slaves escape to free states, collaborating in abolitionist organizations to advocate for the end of slavery, and forming alliances in the fight against segregation and discrimination during the Civil Rights Movement. These collaborations were key in challenging oppressive systems and advancing the cause of freedom for slaves and civil rights for all.
The slaves went to the Union because they wanted to fight for their freedom, and the blacks that fought for the Confederacy were mostly forced to.
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The Union allowed blacks to serve in the army. The Confederates did not allow slaves to fight in combat so they only used blacks for non-combat issues such as servants.