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(Abraham Lincoln issued)Emancipation Proclamation was issued January 1st 1863. He was announcing that all people held as slaves shall be set free. It was a battle for the northern make the southern stop slavery
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The Act provided every able body, white male citizen of the age of 18 years and under the age of 45, be enrolled in the militia. Every citizen so enrolled shall within 6 months thereafter, provide himself with a good musket. They had to serve a three year term.
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The 54th was organized in march 1863, beginning the first black regiment to be organized in the northern states; all eyes were on this progress. The man of the 54th regiment was made up mostly black from the Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
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The resistance to slavery took several forms, several slaves faked that they were ill. They refuse to work and they will do their job poorly. They set buildings on fire; destroy farm equipment and so for that matter they revolt.
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They were harsh to the man/women that were in there. They had bad conditions. There were 150 prisoners that established during the war. They were incarcerated in a rate of coastal fortification.
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The battle went for three days, more than 2,000 land engagement of the civil war Gettysburg ranked supreme. Even though the battle of Gettysburg did not end the war, it was a great battle. The North won over the South.
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The Union side of the story as written by the U.S, Grant. Taken from Battles and leaders. The Confederate side of the story. Taken from the Confederate Military History.
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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation. Any nation so conceived and dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war.
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A prominent military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction. Under Grant, the union army defeated the Confederate military. Effectively ended the surrender of the confederate Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox.
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Confederate General Jubal Early led his forces into Maryland to relive the pressure on Lee’s army. Early got within five miles of Washington D.C. July 13, he was driven back to Virginia.
