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Growing up in slavery I felt the full effects of slavery. Never getting any sleep and having to work nonstop. the shacks we slept in had hay stacks to sleep on and had holes in the roof that water would drip through and soak us through the night the conditions were so bad that I fought so nobody would have to experince what millions of people before me had to experence .

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After the war my famliy reunited in Illinois and those were the best years of my life we lives in peace with no one controlling us and not having to worried about food and being soled and getting wiped, no we were not rich but it was so much better than being a slave.

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Even thought the Civil war was harsh and brutal I fought for it ending in freedom for all slaves

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Background-Daily Life for soldier

“African Americans in America's Wars.” American Battlefield Trust, 22 Mar. 2018

Brooklyn Public Library. Brooklyn Public Library: Brooklyn in the Civil War - Soldiers,

“United States Colored Troops.” American Battlefield Trust, 22 Mar. 2018,

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The conditions of being a soldier were not good. The soldiers and I weren't fed much. I sometimes got guard duty,which meant I would have to guard a well-trod line to make sure no one is lurking anywhere in the countryside.

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being a colored troop I felt like for once I was making a difference in history and the USCT was a big step in in the civil rights movement
180,000 formerly enslaved men like me sighed up to fight for the union and 40,000 died fighting for freedom for themselves and many others.

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I grew up in slavery and was there for half of my life. I was seperated from my mother when I was 5 years old. I worked on a plantation picking cotton. I would work for long hours. One time,I didn't pick much cotton,and my master whipped me hard,and I never upset my master again.

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There is no honorable way to kill no gentle way to destroy there is nothing good in war there is nothing good in war except the ending.

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There is no honorable way to kill no gentle way to destroy there is nothing good in war there is nothing good in war except the ending.

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This quote I brought with me throughout the war every time I saw a dead man I thought about this quote it is all for the freedom for all enslaved people.

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was a black civil war soldier who fought for the union in Maryland 1863
born Alabama 1844
died Illinois 1885