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Question: School where most officers of union and confederacy went!?
2!. name of first nigro army regement to go into battle!?
3!.Constitutional amendment that banned slavery!?

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West Point
54th Massachusetts
13th

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The first African-American regiment to fight for the U!.S!. actually occurred during the Revolutionary War!.
1st Rhode Island Regiment
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1!. I don't think that the majority of all officers in the Union and Conferderate armies went to West Point since the officer corps consisted of all men from 2nd Lt!. to General, literally thousands of officers!. The majority of officers on both sides were civilian volunteers that received commissions and had private educations!. However, I think the answer that is anticipated by the question is the United States Military Academy at West Point!.

It is a widely held misconception that the South held the advantage of a large percentage of professional military who resigned to join the Confederate States Army!. At the start of the war, there were 824 graduates of the U!.S!. Military Academy on the active list; of these, 296 resigned or were dismissed and 184 of those became Confederate officers!. Of the approximately 900 West Point graduates who were then civilians, 114 returned to the Union Army and 99 to the Confederate!. Therefore, the ratio of Union to Confederate professional officers was 642 to 283!.[2] (One of the resigning officers was Robert E!. Lee, who had initially been offered the assignment as commander of a field army to suppress the rebellion; Lee refused to bear arms against his native state, Virginia, and resigned to accept the position as commander of Virginia forces instead!. He eventually became the commander of the Confederate States Army!.) The South did have the advantage of other military colleges, such as The Citadel and Virginia Military Institute, but they produced fewer officers!. Only 26 enlisted men and noncommissioned officers left the United States Army to join the Confederate Army!.[3]

Notice that there were little more than 1700 West Point trained officers even available at the outset of the war!. There were approximately 33 officers in every regiment!. 1 Colonel, 1 Lt!. Col!., 1 Major, 10 Captains and 10 1st Lieutenants and 10 2nd Lieutenants!. Just the State of Indiana produced 126 regiments of infantry alone!. That means that just Indiana would need over 4100 officers for just the regiments!. That does not include brigade, division, corps and army level officers!.

2!. In October, 1862, African American soldiers of the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteers silenced their critics by repulsing attacking Confederates at the battle of Island Mound, Missouri!. By August, 1863, 14 ***** Regiments were in the field and ready for service!. At the battle of Port Hudson, Louisiana, May 27, 1863, the African American soldiers bravely advanced over open ground in the face of deadly artillery fire!. Although the attack failed, the black soldiers proved their capability to withstand the heat of battle!.

On July 17, 1863, at Honey Springs, Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, the 1st Kansas Colored fought with courage again!. Union troops under General James Blunt ran into a strong Confederate force under General Douglas Cooper!. After a two-hour bloody engagement, Cooper's soldiers retreated!. The 1st Kansas, which had held the center of the Union line, advanced to within fifty paces of the Confederate line and exchanged fire for some twenty minutes until the Confederates broke and ran!. General Blunt wrote after the battle, "I never saw such fighting as was done by the ***** regiment!.!.!.!.The question that negroes will fight is settled; besides they make better solders in every respect than any troops I have ever had under my command!."

The most widely known battle fought by African Americans was the assault on Fort Wagner, South Carolina, by the 54th Massachusetts on July 18, 1863!. The 54th volunteered to lead the assault on the strongly-fortified Confederate positions!. The soldiers of the 54th scaled the fort's parapet, and were only driven back after brutal hand-to-hand combat!.

3!. The 13th Amendment!.Www@QuestionHome@Com