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African Americans in the Civil War
"Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letters, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and
a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pockets, and there is no power on earth which can deny that he has
earned the right to citizenship in the United States." Frederick Douglass
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. Learn more about this history,
as well as the Underground Railroad, and the African
American Civil War Memorial.
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