This is just a small example of the doubt and hatred that was bestowed on the African American soldiers. ... Even though an antislavery minority existed in the South, most Southerners found slavery to be highly profitable and in time came to consider it a positive good. ... The north began to use black soldiers in 1863. The South did not decide to use blacks as soldiers until the closing days of the war. ...

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Next, we see soldiers in file, marching through the field. ... The wood are smoke filled as the soldiers walk through. ... As the union soldiers emerge from the forest, the confederate soldiers open fire, propelled cannon balls into their midst. ... The Confederate soldiers open fire upon the soldiers. ... As the Confederate soldiers cheer the Union soldiers are in full retreat. ...

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The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually...

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