X is now the kind of place where a guy previously known mostly for being a far-right musician hated by the rest of the banjo community can get 3 million views for a laughably wrong claim from a dead historian.
BeijingPalmer
Nearly 180,000 Black men served in the Union Army. Another 19,000 in the Navy. Black soldiers accounted for roughly 10% of Union military deaths. A large portion of each were formerly enslaved.
I imagine they gave a damn about slavery.
