Ulysses S. Grant served as President of the United States during March 4, 1869 - March 4, 1877. Colorado is the only state admitted into the union during Grant's presidency. Colorado was admitted into the Union on August 1, 1876 becoming the 38th state to join the Union.
Union General Ulysses S. Grant viewed the Emancipation Proclamation as a crucial war measure that bolstered the Union's moral cause and weakened the Confederacy. He recognized it as a strategic move to undermine Southern labor and resources while encouraging enslaved people to escape and join the Union Army. Grant believed that the proclamation would help to solidify the Union's commitment to ending slavery, thereby transforming the conflict into a fight for freedom. Overall, he saw it as an essential step toward achieving victory and ensuring a lasting peace.
I believe you are referring to Ulysses Grant. He was a great general, and the Union wanted him to command their troops. However, he decided to go with his native Virginia and became a confederate general.
In 1862, Congress passed a law to allow African Americans to join the Union Army.
because they did
To fight for what they believed in.
The proclamation allowed minority troops who were forced to join the army to decide for themselves not to join the army.
A nice change from unemployment, or at best a junior clerk's job in his brother's store.
Straight from West Point. It was before the Mexican War, in which he served with distinction. After that war, he married and had children, before being posted far out in the desert. He missed his family so badly, that he drank on duty and was either discharged or resigned. (As General-in-Chief and later President, no doubt he was in a position to destroy inconvenient records.) For some years, he was virtually unemployed. He tried farming, but failed. He had to ask his brother for a job as a store-clerk. On the outbreak of the civil war, he used his influence with some Ohio politicians to get a colonel's commission, and was posted to Kentucky, where he performed well under General Fremont and commanded a brigade. He was on his way.
He was already a career Regular.
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It allowed many African Americans from the South become free and join the Union's army.