"Incidents of the war ... Soldiers Office from 1865-1868 4 million — Number of enslaved persons in the U.S. in 1860 180,000 — Number of African American soldiers that served in the Civil War 1 ...

Tom Wolff “We’ve tended to see soldiers in the 1860s as stoic and heroic—monuments to duty, honor and sacrifice,” says Lesley Gordon, editor of Civil War History, a leading academic ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops ...