How many African Americans fought in the Civil War?
Social Studies · High School · Thu Feb 04 2021
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By the end of the Civil War, roughly 179,000 black men (10% of the Union Army) served as soldiers in the U.S. Army and another 19,000 served in the Navy. Nearly 40,000 black soldiers died over the course of the war—30,000 of infection or disease. Most about 90,000 were former (or “contraband”) enslaved people from the Confederate states.