It is true that the Northerners refused the blacks from joining the union army at the start of the war.
Why were the blacks stopped from joining the army?
This was because the white people saw the blacks as having inferior fighting skills.
They did not believe that black men had what it took to fight in the civil war. The civil war was due to the plans of the south to secede from the United States.
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