The other jobs the men and women picked up were: carpenters, chaplains, cooks, guards, laborers, nurses, scouts, spies, steamboat pilots, surgeons, and teamsters. The Union Army had many African American soldiers and volunteers, so they addressed these people to certain jobs accordingly. A well known African American women, Harriet Tubman, served as a scout and a nurse mainly to help reach the goal of ending slavery. Additionally, the notable Fredrick Douglas was known for protests to end slavery, and he thought he would contribute to the cause by recruiting his two sons, Charles and Lewis, to join the Union Army. These people stuck to their jobs until the end of the Civil
The other jobs the men and women picked up were: carpenters, chaplains, cooks, guards, laborers, nurses, scouts, spies, steamboat pilots, surgeons, and teamsters. The Union Army had many African American soldiers and volunteers, so they addressed these people to certain jobs accordingly. A well known African American women, Harriet Tubman, served as a scout and a nurse mainly to help reach the goal of ending slavery. Additionally, the notable Fredrick Douglas was known for protests to end slavery, and he thought he would contribute to the cause by recruiting his two sons, Charles and Lewis, to join the Union Army. These people stuck to their jobs until the end of the Civil