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From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress Frederick Douglass Unidentified African-American Union veteran. Our Presidents, Governors, Generals and Secretaries are calling, with almost frantic vehemence, for men.-"Men! men! send us men!" they scream, or the cause of the Union is gone.and yet these very officers, representing the people and the Government, steadily, and persistently refuse to receive the very class of men which have a deeper interest in the defeat and humiliation of the rebels than all others. The war's desperate circumstances meant that the Confederacy changed their policy in the last month of the war in March 1865, a small program attempted to recruit, train, and arm blacks, but no significant numbers were ever raised or recruited, and those that were never saw combat. In general, newspapers, politicians, and army leaders alike were hostile to any efforts to arm blacks. įor the Confederacy, both free and enslaved black Americans were used for manual labor, but the issue of whether to arm them, and under what terms, became a major source of debate within the Confederate Congress, the President's Cabinet, and C.S. Throughout the course of the war, black soldiers served in forty major battles and hundreds of more minor skirmishes sixteen African Americans received the Medal of Honor.

Both Northern Free Negro and Southern runaway slaves joined the fight. Later in the war, many regiments were recruited and organized as the United States Colored Troops, which reinforced the Northern forces substantially during the conflict's last two years. Approximately 20,000 black sailors served in the Union Navy and formed a large percentage of many ships' crews.

The 186,097 black men who joined the Union Army included 7,122 officers and 178,975 enlisted soldiers. 1863–65Īfrican Americans, including former slaves, served in the American Civil War. Samuel Smith ( 3rd United States Colored Cavalry Regiment) with wife and daughters, c.