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The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation

... Proclamation. "We shout for joy that we live to record this righteous decree," wrote Frederick Douglass. Still, many believed the law should have gone further. They were upset that Lincoln had not freed all enslaved persons, including those in the Border States.  Other people in the North, especial ...
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... Proclamation. "We shout for joy that we live to record this righteous decree," wrote Frederick Douglass. Still, many believed the law should have gone further. They were upset that Lincoln had not freed all enslaved persons, including those in the Border States. • Other people in the North, especial ...
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... During the war, Union officers had to decide what to do with enslaved African Americans who came under their control. One general considered them contraband. Contraband is captured war supplies. Another declared that they were free. Lincoln reversed that order, fearing retaliation from the border st ...
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File - Mr. Marini`s History Class
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chapter 16 - Rowan County Schools
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Tennessee Abolitionists - Teach Tennessee History
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Bull Run Essay - Essential Civil War Curriculum

... slaughter there was awful. America would never again be quite the same. Exactly how and why two armies fought in that spot requires some explanation. Sometimes battles occur by accident, without careful planning, with little consideration for terrain or supplies, when armies stumble into each other. ...
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Diplomacy
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Gettysburg

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CIVIL WAR UNIT EXAM
CIVIL WAR UNIT EXAM

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Battle of Fort Pillow



The Battle of Fort Pillow, also known as the Fort Pillow massacre, was fought on April 12, 1864, at Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River in Henning, Tennessee, during the American Civil War. The battle ended with a massacre of Federal troops (most of them African American) attempting to surrender, by soldiers under the command of Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Military historian David J. Eicher concluded, ""Fort Pillow marked one of the bleakest, saddest events of American military history.""
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