These were ex-slaves.
At first, they just performed fatigues for the Northern units. But gradually they were allowed into uniform and formed black regiments and brigades.
They sometimes grew food for the Union army -novanet
Approximately 30,000 Arkansans joined the Union Army during the Civil War. Many of these soldiers were former slaves or Union sympathizers who opposed the Confederacy. The participation of Arkansas troops in the Union Army reflected the state's divided loyalties during the conflict.
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Many slaves were freed by the Union armies in their Southern campaigns, and these ex-slaves were generally employed around the Union army camps as fatigue-parties, some of them gradually being accepted as soldiers and put into uniform. The Confederates resisted any idea of putting slaves into uniform until it was much too late. They were only starting to recruit black troops when the whistle went.
Only a very small percentage of the population of the Union states was African American. However, by the end of the Civil War around 10% of the Union Army was black. Many escaped slaves and those emancipated by Union troops volunteered for the Army.
The North was against slavery and had many slaves in their army. The South on the other hand wanted slaves.
maybe No,because they thought the slaves would beat them,not the Union.
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Slaves in Southern territory held by the Union Army were free immediately, as were slaves who had escaped to the northern states but were held by the Union Army under a law that required slaves to be held as confiscated property of the Confederacy.
They sometimes grew food for the Union army -novanet
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fight for the Union army or help other people get out of slavery.
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When Lincoln announced the emancipation proclamation, some of the slaves were free which then aided the union army to end the war.
The Union army created African American units to fight in the civil war. Before that slaves would join the Union units that came into their area to find freedom from the plantations.
No - there were many regiments of colored troops long before the Proclamation in the Union Army. As hard to believe as it sounds, the Confederate Army also had units of colored troops. And the Proclamation only addressed slaves in the southern states then at awar with the Union.