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No records for either army, north or south, are complete, nor are they always accurate in what they do state. That being said, the best reckonings of careful scholarship derived from studying the records of the Union armies are that around 180,000 Blacks served, out of somewhere around 2.1 million total. Of that 180,000, 1,800 are listed as having died in the US service (this number seems low). Better accuracy will never be possible because enlistments were what was counted, and the same man may have enlisted more than once.
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RafaEstimates on the number of Afro-American who served in the Union military in the US Civil War vary to a small degree. One reliable source places the number of Black soldiers at 180,000.
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