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Abraham Lincoln radically changed the nature of the Civil War on this day 161 years ago
Posted on 9/22/23 at 10:49 am
Posted on 9/22/23 at 10:49 am
With his announcement of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Given as an ultimatum on September 22, 1863, it promised that if the states in rebellion against the Federal government failed to return to the Union by January 1, 1863, the slaves in those states would be forever freed from servitude.
This was a bombshell that had been in the planning stages since the first half of 1862. Lincoln had even presented his Cabinet with an early draft of the Emancipation Proclamation back in July. However, they had advised him to wait on a major victory in the field so as to give it some legitimacy.
That victory came on September 17 in the form of the Battle of Antietam Creek. Five days later, 161 years ago today, Lincoln transformed the American Civil War from a fight to preserve the Union into a fight to free four million Americans from the captivity of perpetual slavery.
This was a bombshell that had been in the planning stages since the first half of 1862. Lincoln had even presented his Cabinet with an early draft of the Emancipation Proclamation back in July. However, they had advised him to wait on a major victory in the field so as to give it some legitimacy.
That victory came on September 17 in the form of the Battle of Antietam Creek. Five days later, 161 years ago today, Lincoln transformed the American Civil War from a fight to preserve the Union into a fight to free four million Americans from the captivity of perpetual slavery.
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Posted on 9/22/23 at 10:51 am to RollTide1987
was this before or after he collected all the silver in DC and sent it to the front line to kill the vampire scourge closing on DC?
Posted on 9/22/23 at 10:53 am to SouthernHog
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He didn’t free the slaves in the North.
He did. Ever heard of the Thirteenth Amendment?
Posted on 9/22/23 at 10:58 am to SouthernHog
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He didn’t free the slaves in the North.
Congress and the states freed all the slaves with the 13th Amendment. That certainly helped clear up any possible legal issues with the Emancipation Proclimation.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 10:58 am to RollTide1987
Uh oh. You bout to upset some people baw. They don’t like hearing the truth.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 10:59 am to RollTide1987
“Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, did you enjoy the play?”
Posted on 9/22/23 at 11:01 am to RollTide1987
I’m digging all the downvotes from the neo-Confederates on here. It’s been 160 years and ya’ll are still not over this war. My great-great-great grandfather fought with the 31st Alabama at Vicksburg. He named his first son after my great-great-great uncle who fought at Gettysburg with the 14th Alabama and who was killed at Bloody Angle during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. Despite all of that, I’m 100% over it and can think about the war both rationally and objectively.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 11:02 am to RollTide1987
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I’m digging all the downvotes from the neo-Confederates on here. It’s been 160 years and ya’ll are still not over this war. My great-great-great grandfather fought with the 31st Alabama at Vicksburg. He named his first son after my great-great-great uncle who fought at Gettysburg with the 14th Alabama and who was killed at Bloody Angle during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. Despite all of that, I’m 100% over it and can think about the war both rationally and objectively.
They're mad because their ancestors had their slaves confiscated and freed by the US Army.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 11:03 am to SouthernHog
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He didn’t free the slaves in the North.
Quite an oversimplification of decades of state-by-state abolishment/free state versus non-free state.
Hence, the thirteenth amendment.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 11:03 am to RollTide1987
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I’m digging all the downvotes from the neo-Confederates on here. It’s been 160 years and ya’ll are still not over this war. My great-great-great grandfather fought with the 31st Alabama at Vicksburg. He named his first son after my great-great-great uncle who fought at Gettysburg with the 14th Alabama and who was killed at Bloody Angle during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. Despite all of that, I’m 100% over it and can think about the war both rationally and objectively.
We all had ancestors that fought for the South. But the North is not without sin.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 11:05 am to RollTide1987
Muh States' Rights.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 11:05 am to RollTide1987
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He didn’t free the slaves in the North.
He did. Ever heard of the Thirteenth Amendment?
Did he sign it?
Posted on 9/22/23 at 11:05 am to RollTide1987
It didn’t cover border states that had not joined the Confederacy (Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri). As well as parts of Virginia (including the counties that would become West Virginia) and Louisiana (Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans) under Union control and considered no longer in rebellion.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 11:06 am to SouthernHog
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We all had ancestors that fought for the South.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 11:06 am to GetCocky11
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They're mad because their ancestors had their slaves confiscated and freed by the US Army.
99.9% of posters here don't have the bloodlines
I'm sure they like to think they are from Dixie royalty 
Posted on 9/22/23 at 11:06 am to RollTide1987
Old Honest Abe is responsible for the deaths of 600,000 Americans.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 11:07 am to GetCocky11
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They're mad because their ancestors had their slaves confiscated and freed by the US Army.
Former slave traders of the north no longer needed them as they had plenty of immigrant families to exploit in their factories.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 11:07 am to RollTide1987
Lincoln didn’t free a single slave
Posted on 9/22/23 at 11:09 am to RollTide1987
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He did. Ever heard of the Thirteenth Amendment?
Don’t you dare bring logic with legitimate proof into the conversation about souther oppression.
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