[stainlessbanner]

Post some links then, sport.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

It's all over the Internet. Being pressed for time, here's one that says 180,000 in the army and 10,000 in the navy. I know that just because there's a link for it doesn't make it gospel truth, but those are generally accepted magnitudes of blacks in the Union cause.

http://www.answers.com/topic/emancipation-proclamation-and-thirteenth-amendment

And like southern whites, you often had to be truly dedicated to the cause to overcome all the barriers to even reach Union forces, whereas many southern conscripts and slaves served the Confederate needs only reluctantly.

The slaveowners were adept in getting others to do their dirty work no matter whether the exploited help was southern blacks or southern whites.

[LeoWindhorse]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp3pRiw9aQk&mode=related&search=