Aside the point but he looks like an insufferably smug sophomore in a Agatha Christie play put on at a community theatre with no AC and dry rot
Maladroithe
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.