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“The fact remains that women and children were left vulnerable to sickness and disease, manipulative slaveholders, and even apathetic Union officers during the Civil…

— Jim Downs

“Whatever the reason for enlisting, by 1865 the Union had sworn in 2,128,948 men, approximately one-third of the military-age male population of the northern…

— Allen C. Guelzo

It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in…

— Malcolm X

“The fear had precedent. Toward the end of the Civil War, having witnessed the effectiveness of the Union's 'colored troops,' a flailing Confederacy began…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Predictably, northern military units predominated, but the presence of Confederate soldiers touched onlookers. “It was quite a sight to see the Stonewall Brigade [march]…

— Ron Chernow

The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after…

— Dana Priest

We must have black troops, and a limitless number of them too - paid and treated like their white brothers.

— Benjamin Lincoln

The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.

— Robert Toombs

“Our government seemed to expect the same of them as of white men. Poor Negroes! They are hopelessly inferior. . . . If you…

— Joseph E. Persico

The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“The whole South was a military camp. The occupation of the colored people was to furnish supplies for the army. Conscription was resorted to…

— Ulysses S. Grant

There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers , but…

— Frederick Douglass