The black union Army
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Benefits of the Black Union Army
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The black union army is a term commonly used to refer to the black men of African American origin who were mostly recruited into the American army as a consequence of the civil war between the northern and southern states. This war came to an end with the surrender of the non federal forces in the 1865 after a fierce battle that had started three years with the firing on Fort Sumter.
As a result racial of discrimination, the efforts of African Americans in winning the civil war were not aired. In the earlier years, blacks were associated with slavery and were destined to hard work and service for the whites. They had no constitutional rights to a position as noble as defending the nation as soldiers until 1963 following the enactment of the Emancipation proclamation in the beginning of the year. This isolation did not end even after recruitment into the army, as white soldiers were to be paid 16.5 dollars while the black soldiers reaped a mere laborer’s pay of 7 dollars a week for their services (A+E Networks, 1).
Additionally, the fact that there were only a hundred soldiers recruited the whole year among many of the blacks who were willing to join the forces, greatly depicts the extent to which discrimination had been rooted in the American nation in those days. With their immediate enrollment into the army, blacks were not allowed to engage in direct fights and received substandard treatment in the control of the whites who were to be leaders even in these black troops.
By the end of the victorious civil war, a third of the African American armies out of the estimated 180,000 enlisted until 1965, had perished in the battle fields (A+E Networks, 1). During the 1862, the second black militia group was absorbed into the Union army in Louisiana by major general Butler Benjamine led by their own black lieutenants and captains and was to be known as the Louisiana
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Institution
Course
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Benefits of the Black Union Army
Introduction
The black union army is a term commonly used to refer to the black men of African American origin who were mostly recruited into the American army as a consequence of the civil war between the northern and southern states. This war came to an end with the surrender of the non federal forces in the 1865 after a fierce battle that had started three years with the firing on Fort Sumter.
As a result racial of discrimination, the efforts of African Americans in winning the civil war were not aired. In the earlier years, blacks were associated with slavery and were destined to hard work and service for the whites. They had no constitutional rights to a position as noble as defending the nation as soldiers until 1963 following the enactment of the Emancipation proclamation in the beginning of the year. This isolation did not end even after recruitment into the army, as white soldiers were to be paid 16.5 dollars while the black soldiers reaped a mere laborer’s pay of 7 dollars a week for their services (A+E Networks, 1).
Additionally, the fact that there were only a hundred soldiers recruited the whole year among many of the blacks who were willing to join the forces, greatly depicts the extent to which discrimination had been rooted in the American nation in those days. With their immediate enrollment into the army, blacks were not allowed to engage in direct fights and received substandard treatment in the control of the whites who were to be leaders even in these black troops.
By the end of the victorious civil war, a third of the African American armies out of the estimated 180,000 enlisted until 1965, had perished in the battle fields (A+E Networks, 1). During the 1862, the second black militia group was absorbed into the Union army in Louisiana by major general Butler Benjamine led by their own black lieutenants and captains and was to be known as the Louisiana
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