Stating that they were conscripted does not imply dishonour. Just the opposite, I have long held those that served - black, white, red or yellow - in the highest regards.
Not in a bogus 'culture' like the Confederacy where every single soldier was conscripted at least once. But it does in a society such as the North had where 98% of the white soldiers were volunteers, and it certainly did for Americans of African Heritage in the south where all Americans of African heritage who chose to fight for their freedom with honor in the Union Army did so voluntarrily. That was, of course, the honorable alernative to digging ditches for the greatest slave master in the history of America, that scum bastard Lee. That traitor, by the way, forced American soldiers to dig ditches under fire, and was only stopped from such a violation of the accepted rules of war by his Excellency, Benjamin Butler.