By the end of the war, nearly 180,000 former slaves had enlisted in the army and fought against the Confederacy.
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Slaves fought for both sides, if they were free they would fight for the North to help free others. If they were slaves they would be forced to go to help the South win. The implementation of having slaves in the South become Confederate soldiers came very late in the war. It did not effect the outcome of the war at all.
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They thought that maybe they could free all slaves and try and be accepted by the rest of the U.S. but it didn't work and they had only chose them to fight because they had less soldiers and needed more people desperately
The Germans and their allies fought on one side. The Allied troops fought on the other side. French civilians were in the middle.
Henry Ravenel believed the slaves would fight on the side of their masters. He was shocked after Sherman's March that many of his slaves either left or refused to work once they learned they were free. He was obviously in denial, somehow believing people would rather be enslaved than free.