One of the things that were important at war was that the Blacks proving themselves was that of the Black Man acting as a soldier in the Civil War. During the Civil War the decision to use Blacks as soldiers in the Union Army was a slow and not very wanted process and a different types of strategic political decisions. The black people wouldnt be a soldier just like that they would do different things …showed first 75 words of 176 total…

…showed last 75 words of 176 total…to be a soldier. Another thing is that it was to President Lincoln's use to put Blacks as soldiers when he did. Whereas the later was the Black Man's choice to fight for his freedom and prove himself as an normal and the same human being as white people. However because the Black population was restricted from entering the army under a 1792 law the Black Man becoming a soldier was not officially done until late 1862.