How many of those black regiments were conscripts?
Don't know offhand. How many confederates were conscripts? Do they not count? Do the two-thirds of American soldiers from WW2 who were draftees not count in some way?
Are you going to give another of those great soundbites again, like "Your ancestors were nothing more than a horde of avarice driven lice who infested the Southern states under the auspices of war to line their own pockets."?
Enticements like the following ad in the Vicksburg Herald newspaper advertising for Southerners to fill the Massachusetts troop quota might have played a role.
RECRUITS FOR MASSACHUSETTS QUOTA
$625.00 Bounty
$425.00 CASH DOWN
The same bounty and pay to
WHITE OR COLORED RECRUITS.
All get sixteen dollars per month.
Choose your own Regiment or Company.
Liberal pay to agents for bringing recruits to me.
Lieut. Col. E. C. Kinsley
Ass’t Provost Marshall of Massachusetts for the District of Mississippi
Headquarters at Vicksburg – Office on Washington Street near Clay, over Col. Saunders & Co.’s store.
The bounty was equivalent to 39 months of pay.
None. The U.S. Conscription laws applied only to whites.