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Harvey Schowalter ∙
some southerners felt that confiscating property violated the constitution
Radical Republicans
Some timely battlefield victories, to compensate for the terrible casualties coming out of Grant's endless Siege of Petersburg.
Sheridan in the Shenandoah, Sherman in Atlanta, and Farragut in Mobile.
It was an excuse for not returning the slaves to their owners, and thereby weakening the Southern economy.