Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville -APEX
Second Bull Run (Manassas)
Chickamauga
Freeing the slaves in the Confederacy.
Lincoln issued the first Emancipation Proclamation shortly after the Battle of Antietam. It would take effect January 1, 1863.
This did not effect any European power from formal recognition. least of all the world's most powerful empire with millions of "Native Peoples " under their control. One can call it forced labor. The British had already given the Confederacy "de facto " recognition as it had a constitution, a government and an army.
The limited supply of goods caused prices to rise.
The pursuit of a national policy of manifest destiny
It paved the way for antislavery politics.
President Lincoln's changed his commanding general several times.
The costs included over 700,000 dead and $8.2 billion in damages.
abolition
They enlisted in the Union Army
Clement L.Vallandigham
Protests and violence.