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To relieve the manpower shortage by recruiting slaves into the Confederate armies. Jefferson Davis and his cabinet were opposed to this, as it cut across the basic principle of the Confederacy.

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Q: What difficult decision did Robert E. Lee have to make to take the post of commanding general?
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