Lincoln's early aim was union. The 1 January 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, tied to the Antietam moment, made freedom a Union war aim for Confederate-held territory and opened large-scale Black enlistment in USCT regiments.
Britain and France stayed out; the cotton famine did not buy Confederate recognition once emancipation recast the war's meaning abroad. In the east, Lee's Army of Northern Virginia won famous battles and lost the war. In the west, Grant and the rivers -- Forts Henry and Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg -- cut the Confederacy.
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Lincoln's early aim was union. The 1 January 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, tied to the Antietam moment, made freedom a Union war aim for Confederate-held territory and opened large-scale Black enlistment in USCT regiments.
Britain and France stayed out; the cotton famine did not buy Confederate recognition once emancipation recast the war's meaning abroad. In the east, Lee's Army of Northern Virginia won famous battles and lost the war. In the west, Grant and the rivers -- Forts Henry and Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg -- cut the Confederacy.
The Union blockade and the new naval ironclads (Monitor and Virginia, 1862) were a technology sideshow with a strategic effect: the South could not export its way to victory. Lincoln was murdered on 14 April 1865. Andrew Johnson and then Radical Republicans fought over the terms of southern readmission. The Ku Klux Klan and "Redeemer" governments used terror to restore white rule after federal troops left in 1877.
The Civil War was a political war about a slaveholding republic that became, through arms and amendments, a different constitution -- then a contested memory. Another continental civil war that decided a state's social system -- different century, same stakes of who governs the peasantry and the cities.
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