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American Civil War - American Civil War - African American troops: The Emancipation Proclamation also allowed black men to serve in the Union army. This had been illegal under a federal law enacted in 1792 (although African Americans had served in the army in the War of 1812 and the law had never applied to the navy). With their stake in the Civil War now patently obvious, African Americans.
African Americans and the Civil War ADAPTED FROM ESSAYS BY LAURA MITCHELL, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, AND BARBARA SAVAGE, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Source for information on African Americans and the Civil War: African-American Years: Chronologies of American History and Experience dictionary.
African American Soldiers in the Civil War The Civil War created a great amount of damage to not only the United States, but also to the soldiers who fought in the war. “Approximately 180,000 African-Americans, comprising 163 units, served in the U.S. Army, and 18,000 in the Navy,”(Civil War Trust).
Eyewitness accounts by officers in the Federal army offer some evidence of African American participation on the battlefields for the South. Records show that New York officers on patrol reported they were attacked near New Market, Virginia, by Confederate cavalry and a group of 700-armed blacks on December 22, 1861.
The total number of black Confederate soldiers is statistically insignificant: They made up less than 1 percent of the 800,000 black men of military age (17-50) living in the Confederate states.
During the American Civil War approximately 180,000 black soldiers served in the Union army, many were runaway slaves, others free African Americans. They made up of a total of 163 units in the Union army and many also played a major role in the Union navy.
Welcome to the Black Confederate Soldiers website which focuses on connecting families with their ancestor's genealogical records and citations. The purpose of this website is to provide a one-stop location of free genealogy records by state about 19th Century slaves and freedmen who served in various capacities with the Confederate States Army and Navy during the American Civil War.