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- Although the south strongly oposed using their slaves in the combat war in the last few months of the war when they were running low on troops they resulted in using them anyway. Many people believe that this was a major mistake for the south and could of been part of the reason that the Union won the war so soon after.

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- Even after the law was passed of allowing African-Americans to fight the south refused to arm them and continued to use them as slaves being cooks working in their infirmarys and other non-combat jobs against their will.

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- In the battle of Fort Pillow, April 12, 1864, a disorganized unit of about 600 men, half of them being black suffered almost 575 casualties even after surrendur they continued to be brutally attacked and murdured and considered a massacre.

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-Repercussions of this decision to allow black soldiers were rough. In most cases when a black soldier was captured they suffered way worse treatment than the white soldiers who were imprisioned.

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- After this law was passed to allow black soldiers in the war not many recruitments occured until people from the Bureau of Colored Troops such as Fredrick Douglass started going out and explaining all of the possibilities of ways it would benifit them. Things like how it was more likely to ensure their full freedom rights and so on.

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- One of the main reasons it took so long for president Abe Lincoln to decide to sign the emancipation proclomation is beacuse he was scared that allowing African-Americans to fight in the war would cause boarder states such as Maryland, or Kentucky to secede.

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-The "54th Massachusetts Volenteer Infantry Regiment" was one of the first battles in the war using units of black soldiers in the Unions armed forces.

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-On January 1, 1863, President Abe Lincoln signed the emancipation proclomation declaring "All persons held as slaves within any states... in rebellion against the United States, shall be free thenceforward and forever free." Although the Confederate States did not feel obligated to follow these laws this was a huge turning point for the Union becase the African-Americans were now allowed to fight in the war.

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- The Civil War wasn't the first war that involved racism. In the Revolutionary and War of 1812 black soldiers were excluded and not allowed to fight.

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- Another segregation  issue that was eventually solved was the pay of black soldiers to white soldiers. Black soldiers were initially paid $10 with $3 deducted for clothing while white soldiers were paid $13 with no clothing deduction. But, as shown in the time line above, this was changed in July, 1864

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- Although there were many hopes of racism coming to its end there were also many ways of it spreading even further. For example, due to several Union soldiers' opinions of how having mixed racial troops was causing problems, several segregated troops were formed with all black soldiers and white commanders.

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-By the end of the war, 16 black soldiers had been awarded the Medal of Honor for their extensive courage and dedication in the war. This shows one of the many ways the Union hoped that racism in the United States was coming to an end.

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-Because of the obvious anger toward African-Americans they were not used in the war as extensively as they could have been.

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- Although black women could not formally join the army, a lot of times they still served as nurses, spies, and scouts. The most famous black woman being Harriet Tubman. Harriet scouted for the 2d South Carolina Volunteers.

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-The African-American soldiers at the start of the war were mostly just put into noncombat jobs such as chaplains, cooks, guards, laborers, nurses, scouts, spies, steamboat pilots, and surgeons.

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- Around 40,000 African-American soldiers died.
- 30,000 of them by infection, or disease.

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-By the end of the civil war, about 179,000 black men served as soldiers in the United States Army and another 19,000 served in the Navy.

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Slavery Changes Throughout the Civil War:

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Slavery Changes Throughout the Civil War:

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The Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery everywhere in the United States.

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Confederate States of America issue a law allowing the use of slaves in the war.

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Congress grants equal pay for black soldiers.

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There are now about 5,000 black volenteers to fight in the Unions army.

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Congress now allows that African Americans can enlist into the Union Army.

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The start to the Civil War.

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Confederate States of America officialy formed.

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-South Carolina is the first of the total 11 states to secede from the union and eventually form the Confederate States of America.