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-freed only the slaves in Confederate states. -It did not free slaves in the Border States.
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-Reasons Joined: freedom, citizenship, honor, respect & pay -Hardships Faced: if captured often killed or sold into slavery received less pay than white soldiers no guarantee of gaining the rights of citizenship
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escaped slaves the right to join the Union army in 1862
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consisted mostly of free blacks. In 1863 led a heroic charge on South Carolina’s Fort Wagner.
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were against the Civil War, sympathized with the South, and opposed abolition.
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is a constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment. Lincoln suspended the right of habeas corpus. Lincoln saw Copperheads as a threat to the war effort and jailed them without evidence or trial.
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-rich men $300 bought their way out of military service & poor men were being drafted to fight the war
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-firing at close range, bayoneting, lack of medicine, & medical treatment - Biggest killer: diseases, nearly twice as many soldiers died of illnesses as died in combat.
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-Andersonville, Georgia (South) and Elmira, New York (North) were prison camps. -Little shelter, food, or clothing. -Starvation & disease killed thousands of prisoners.
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-Women and men to old or young for military service worked in factories and farms.
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Founded the American Red Cross “Angel of the battlefield” who worked at field hospitals.
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