It's clear that the Union had a large draft pool of men. Many millions of them. Combined with all the other resources it had, it's clear the Union could have won the Civil War without slaves. It was a good sign however, that thousands of former slaves joined the Union forces.
The Union did well to be taken into the Union's army. Lincoln thought it was a good idea. He believed the more soldiers under Union commanders could only help end the war sooner. It's true that the Union could have won without them but the North also helped freed Black slaves with their self pride and they fought well. The South also recruited some slaves into their forces, but only a nominal amount, perhaps 5,000.
No, the confederate had no slaves, but the union did have African American solders.
The Union
The North won the civil war, which meant that the South had to rejoin the union and free their slaves.
The south was against Taxation without Representation from the north they were also against the north telling them that they could no longer have slaves. The North wanted a peaceful country. No slaves. They got mad when Virginia succeded from the Union in 1861
union survived. slaves were freed.
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The Confedracy, the people who slaves not banned, and the Union, the people who want slaves banned
No. Lincoln detested slavery, but did nothing about it; his sole goal was to preserve the union. He believed that ANYTHING that would preserve the union and prevent the confederacy from seceding was proper to do. Lincoln himself wrote that if he could preserve the union by freeing all the slaves, he would do so; if he could preserve the union by not freeing ANY slaves he would do so, and that if he could preserve the union by freeing some slaves and not freeing others, he would do THAT. Which is what he did. The Emancipation Proclamation freed only the slaves within the Confederacy; it did not free any slaves within the areas controlled by the North.
Answer this question… Former slaves fighting in the Union army were essential to several Northern victories.
Union soldiers
The Union forces won the war.