CLEP U.S. History I 100: Black Military Service and the Destruction of Slavery
U.S. History to 1877 | Chapter 18 | Lesson 18.5 Official wartime tabulations list approximately 179,000 Black men in the U.S. Army, and the Library of Congress summarizes Army and Navy service together as around 200,000. The naval component is commonly estimated near 20,000. These are overlapping ways to report the same broad mobilization, not […]
CLEP U.S. History I 099: Soldiers, Civilians, Women, and the Home Fronts
U.S. History to 1877 | Chapter 18 | Lesson 18.4 More than 2.8 million men and a few hundred women served in the Union and Confederate armies, according to the National Archives’ current service-record overview. That figure remains approximate because Confederate records are incomplete and service in more than one regiment can generate more than […]
