When the union troops were in an area they often had the freed slaves come to them for protection and to help. At one point slaves came to one unit and the confederate officer demanded the return of the slaves from the union commander. The union commander told the Confederate that the slaves were contraband. By declaring them contraband he didn't have to return the slaves. After that event they called themselves "contraband."
The Emancipation Proclamation was the proclamation issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in those territories still in rebellion against the Union.
African Americans could not join until after the Emancipation Proclamation.
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln on January 1st 1863 (Union), it freed all slaves in the CONFEDERATE states not the Union slave states.
The Union soldiers thought that they were fighting for slaves to be free.
As a result of the Emancipation Proclamation
Antietam (Sharpsburg) in September 1862.
It proclaimed the slaves in the southern states who had left the union free. It only applied to these states and not the entire country.
The Emancipation Proclamation was the proclamation issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in those territories still in rebellion against the Union.
Abraham Lincolnâ??s Emancipation Proclamation stated that all slaves in the ten rebellious states were free. It also ordered that suitable freed persons could join the Union Army. Furthermore, the Union Army was to â??recognize and maintainâ?? the recently freed personsâ?? status.
actively began recruiting African American soldiers to fight
His most noted proclamation was the Emancipation Proclamation, ending slavery in the states that had seceeded. (Not in the states still in the Union. I assume you mean that and not the Gettysburg Address, his most famous speech.
The Emancipation Proclamation was enforce through the advancing Union armies. As the Union soldiers advanced, slaves were freed in their wake, therefore enforcing the Proclamation
They would run into each other when they came out at night
it made it ok for the Union soldiers to free slaves as they went through the south
The Emancipation Proclomation influenced the soldiers
African Americans could not join until after the Emancipation Proclamation.
African Americans could not join until after the Emancipation Proclamation.