12 Unbelievable Obstacles Black Soldiers in the Civil War Faced
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12 Unbelievable Obstacles Black Soldiers in the Civil War Faced

179,000 black men served in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War while a further 19,000 served in the U.S. Navy. As historian Ira Berlin and colleagues put it, black men found themselves once again “enmeshed in another white-dominated hierarchy which also assumed their inferiority.” The discrimination toward the black soldier which resulted from ...