The Death Of The Yankee

The Civil war was one of the bloodiest in human history up to that time. In September 1862, Lincoln issues his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, it was a military move, giving the south four months to stop rebelling, threatening to emancipate their slaves if they continued to fight, promising to leave slavery untouched in states that came over to the North. By the beginning of 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation was issued and it declared slaves free in those areas still fighting against the union. The more blacks that were free joined the war and

Two years into the Civil War, Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22nd, 1862.

According to History staff, “After a string of military victories [for the North] in the early months of 1862, Northern armies suffered demoralizing reverses in July and August.” The south was winning the war at this time and it looked like slavery would remain and the fight would be for nothing. An escaped slave proposed a proclamation, to allow free blacks to fight the war against slavery, to Abraham Lincoln, his name was Robert Smalls.

The first effect of the North’s victory over the South is emancipation. Even though slaves were technically freed through “contraband”, Lincoln continued to persist that this fights intent is to save the Union, not to free the slaves. But, before eighteen sixty-two, Lincoln considered emancipation as being the next step necessary to win the war. On July twenty-second eighteen sixty-two, Lincoln unveiled a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet. It proposed emancipation of all slaves in rebel areas on January 1st, eighteen sixty-three. The Secretary of State William H. Seward agreed with Lincoln 's initial draft, but he warned President Lincoln to wait till the Union had won a major victory before introducing the proclamation to the public. In eighteen sixty-two President Lincoln got his opportunity to do so, when the Union was victorious in the Battle of Antietam. On September twenty-second President Lincoln officially issued the Emancipation Proclamation to the public. The Proclamation warned the Confederate states that if they did not surrender by January first, eighteen sixty-three, their slaves would be freed.

Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation which gave freedom to the slaves in the Confederate still in rebellion and allowed African Americans to fight for the Union army. The Emancipation Proclamation also created a path to abolition of slavery in the United States.

Lincoln thought if slaves in southern states were freed, then the Confederacy could no longer use them as laborers or more importantly soldiers, to fight against the Union army. The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation speech was the day after the Union army won the Battle of Antietam. Lincoln was eager to share his new Emancipation to the southerners, but his advisor cabinet wanted him to wait until the Union won a prominent battle. After the Emancipation Proclamation took effect, in the Union's eyes the official war aim was freeing the

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After this was done the battle in Antietam would happen. This was also excellent timing. While the battle was basically a draw the North was able to spin it thanks to newspaper depicting it as a win. Lincoln seized this opportunity to send the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. By doing this he opened the door to his power of Commander and Chief of the United States Army. The timing of this document was also quite timely. It was sent out 5 days after the battle of Antietam and just hundred days before the New Year. It stated that if the Confederates stated in the war the Union would start freeing slaves. The South did not pull out of the war as a result on January 1, 1863 Lincoln made the proclamation public. He justified doing so by stating in the proclamation that he was the Commander and Chief and this was a necessary war measure. On this day no slaves were technically freed since there was a restriction on who could be freed. The restriction stated that in order for slaves to be freed they must reside in a state that was in active rebellion against the United States. All the Union slaves were already free so it did not affect them over all but as the Union moved into the Confederate states it affected a

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