Black Regiment #1176
$ 10.00
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We fought suffered to save the country, we ought to be remember.
About 178,000 African Americans fought in the war, and more than
50,000 of them died.One in every four sailors in the Union Navy
was African. totaling about 50,000 men.
These words spoken by Frederick Douglass moved many African Americans to enlist in the Union Army and fight for their freedom. With President Abraham Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, the Civil War became a war to save the union and to abolish slavery. Approximately 180,000 African Americans comprising 163 units served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and many more African Americans served in the Union Navy. Both free African-Americans and runaway slaves joined the fight.
