200,000 Black men fought in the Civil War. Some lawmakers want to give them the Congressional Gold Medal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/02/05/civil-war-black-soldiers-gold-medal

You can read my blog post on this at https://coldsouthernsteel.wordpress.com/2022/02/05/200000-black-men-fought-in-the-civil-war-some-lawmakers-want-to-give-them-the-congressional-gold-medal-another-bhm-post/