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After the Emancipation Proclamation (January 1863) when Union troops were licensed to free any slaves they came across.

These slaves had nowhere to go, so they followed the Union armies, eventually being given menial jobs around the camps, and eventually allowed into uniform, as low-ranking white troops realised that this could speed their own promotion.

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