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By the draft, mainly, and new immigrants from Germany and Ireland were paid to enlist.
Just the American Civil War began, the military leader who would end up becoming the most famous Confederate general, Robert E. Lee, was offered a key position in the Union Army. Despite being personally opposed to slavery and secession, Lee hesitated to accept the position because it would require him to make war against his beloved home-state of Virginia. His hesitation cost him the job, and he went on to serve in the Confederate military.
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The surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia under Lee at Appomattox Court House.
Before the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, slaves in the South could only hope that advancing Union armies would not make themselves victims of collateral damage. After January 1, 1863, Southern slaves could look forward to being freed by advancing Union armies.The Proclamation had no effect on Union slave holding states.
With that said, many freed slaves wanted to enlist in the Union army.
He believed that the people of each new state should vote on whether it should be a slave-state or free soil.
He failed to see that each time a new state went to the polls, every bully-boy in the USA would descend on that one state, to try to influence the vote, either legally by buying a cheap property to qualify as a voter, or illegally, by intmidating the local citizens and trying to get the result declared to be rigged.
