Some More on the 27th USCT-- Part 3

Several factors  retarded the recruitment of the 27th USCT:

1.    The 54th and 55th Massachusetts had already recruited in Ohio.  Other states' USCT regiments also had recruited in Ohio.  An estimated 3,000 Blacks had already joined regiments from other states  before the 27th was formed.

2.  The discriminatory pay rate.

3.  Even unskilled black laborers could make more money as a day laborer  than they would earn as a black soldier in the Army.

4.  In 1864, Whites could receive a $100 bounty for enlisting that Blacks were ineligible for.

--Old B-Runner