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Initially war fever and patriotic call for action. Then they drafted people and immigrants and gave potential soldiers with money the right to pay bounties to others to serve in their place. Both sides talked about enlisting and arming Blacks (i.e., slaves in the south) but only Lincoln had the political support to actually promote the use of Black Soldiers which gave the Union a great advantage in military growth, just as the ability of the South to raise new armies was falling apart. At this point the Union won

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