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when at first the union army does not take black soldiers. at least not officially. there are a couple of ways, some individual isolated cases of black individuals who do enlist in white units and fight. you guys read -- you remember cyrus boyd was an iowa soldier and i had you read his account of shiloh. it sort of woke him up to what war is about. there was a soldier named thomas jeffreys. thomas it turns out, if you go in the roles you won't find this but in the back of cyrus boyd's diary he has a cast of characters, he talks like tiny biographical sketch of everybody in his regim...

you know from our discussion last week that and earlier today that a factor in winning was go withing to be manpower. who could keep armies in the field the longest. and by 1862, everybody's having a harder time of that. you know that the confederates had a draft in april 1862. the union hasn't had the draft yet but it's having a harder time than it did april 1861 getting men to volunteer. there is one pool of willing recruits, however. that the union forces have not yet tap tapped. in 1862 into 1863 is the year, is the time in which this pool will be tapped and here is another indic...