General Orders No. 143 established a bureau to organize Black regiments in the Union Army. Black men had already pressed to fight, and their military service became a direct struggle for freedom and citizenship. Unequal pay and discriminatory treatment persisted even as Black troops helped secure Union victory and the destruction of slavery.
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Black soldiers helped transform the Civil War into a struggle against slavery.
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Black enlistment and military service were central to emancipation.