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Some were from slaves states that remained in the Union or occupied areas before the Emancipation and were offerred their freedom proclamation and were offered their freedom if they enlisted.

I have never run across any texts that claimed that. I know there were black units before the EP (Kansas volunteers and some "contraband" units on the Sea Islands in Georgia enlisted by General Hunter I believe and against War Dept. policy) but I have never seen anything that offered freedom for enlistment. Do you have a source?

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I read about it in a history of the war in Maryland from the Confederate point of view. It could be the claim was false that slaves were offered their freedom to enlist.