[PJammers]

Thank you!

Freed slaves and blacks were not allow to fight until late in the war. They were also normally kept in the back line as support units. They were also not allowed to fight along side their white counterparts. They were kept in all black units. The vast majority of deaths were people of European decent. Most were poor farmers who had very little to loose. Most volunteered and gave their lives freely.

I believe someone else needs to check their civil war facts.

v/r

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Actually, in 1864, a great many black soldiers saw action and died , most notably at Petersburg (in the Battle of the Crater), and at Fort Pillow, Tennessee and at Saltville, Virginia (where, in both cases, those that surrendered were massacred by their outraged Confederate captors). By the end of the Civil War, roughly 179,000 black men (10% of the Union Army) had served as soldiers in the U.S. Army and another 19,000 had served in the Navy. Nearly 40,000 black soldiers died over the course of the war—-30,000 of infection or disease, and the rest in battle.

[muawiyah]

Well, fact is most all of the Union Army was raised in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. They'd been having a dramatic economic depression there for nearly a decade.

They volunteered to shoot Rebels, not get hurt!