Almost all the “colored” regiments as they were referred to back then were mustered from Northern states such as Massachusetts. Most of the Union was not for allowing African Americans to fight. Lincoln and Grant personally supporting the effort and the start of their own views on African Americans evolving forward.
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Almost all the “colored” regiments as they were referred to back then were mustered from Northern states such as Massachusetts. Most of the Union was not for allowing African Americans to fight. Lincoln and Grant personally supporting the effort and the start of their own views on African Americans evolving forward.