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Number of sailors union navy civil war10/17/2023 ![]() ![]() Yet, only one percent of the Northern population was African American. ![]() They comprised twenty-five percent of the Union navy. The United States Colored Troops made up over ten percent of the Union or Northern Army even though they were prohibited from joining until July 1862, fifteen months into the war. Following are the numbers of enlistees attributed to the states in which they enlisted: The 209,145 names are drawn from official records of the Bureau of US Colored Troops (USCT) at the National Archives and engraved on the Wall of Honor of the African American Civil War Memorial, Washington, D.C.
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