Some were forced to do so by their owners, either because extra manpower was needed or because the owner could no longer fight and needed the slave to fight on his behalf. The reasons the actual soldiers who were African Americans fought for the Confederacy. They did the hard work of fortifying the Confederacy’s infrastructure of roads and weapons factories, which white people did not want to do, or could not be spared to do.
Another 100,000 or so worked for the Confederacy in supportive roles such as laborers and servants to white soldiers. No one knows exactly how many African Americans fought for the Confederacy, but scholars estimate the number to be between 3,000 and 6,000 people. This was when the Confederacy was in extreme need of all the extra soldiers it could get, as it became increasingly likely the Union would win the war. Why were they there?įirst of all, while there were indeed African American Confederate soldiers, they were not legally permitted to fight for the Confederate army until the last month of the Civil War. Union soldiers reported encountering them. The existence of African American Confederate soldiers was noted with disdain and a bit of pity by popular abolitionist speaker and former slave Frederick Douglass during the Civil War. What were their reasons for fighting against the people who would free them? Why did they side with the Confederacy? Or was it more complicated than that? Here are the answers you need to know. Because the Civil War was largely about the issue of slavery and whether or not it would continue to be allowed in this country, the existence of African American Confederate soldiers seems bizarre. The presence of African American soldiers in the Confederate army is a little known fact of the Civil War.
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