McClellan and Lee fought at Antietam the other day and
people say it was an extremely bloody battle. It ended in a draw and Lincoln
fired McClellan. It was about time though; McClellan was causing more harm than
good in the war. President Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation
today. It stated that all slaves were free in the confederate states and that
slaves could enlist in the army. His reasoning for this was to keep the Union
together, but not end slavery all at once. Slaves were technically property and
the government is allowed to take away their opponents supplies in a war. So it
was completely legal for the Union to take and free many of the Confederate
slaves. So far I have seen a lot of different reactions to this proclamation.
The South is angry and felt antagonized while the North was rooting for this
proclamation to take effect. According to Lincoln it would become a law in
January 1863.
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