IF you can do that, you should use it for your PhD dissertation topic, as NOBODY else has anything NEAR that figure!
YEP, Blacks were at the "Crater" on BOTH sides. they fought WELL, too and with HONOR.
the union used the Black troops at the Battle of the Crater, as CANNON-FODDER, to spare "white lives".
btw, i NEVER said that there was ONE Black unit in the union forces (in fact there was a NUMBER of "Black or mostly Black" units in the union army.) it is UNfortunate that the VAST majority were NOT used as combat troops, but rather as common laborers, in racially SEGREGATED units,under WHITE officers & at HALF pay, as they were simply NOT TRUSTED by the DY high-command. (btw, did you misread my post OR did you hope nobody else did read it????)
the VAST MAJORITY of "other than white" soldiers, sailors & marines on BOTH SIDES served with BOTH honor AND distinction!
free dixie,sw
Sure. The day you start providing your's. Let's start with the "100,000 free blacks in confederate army" nonsense.
No primary sources from the civil war are online.
Just a reality note.