Abolition of slavery as a war aim of the Union really didn’t come until ‘63. By that time, it was clear that, whatever else one’s sentiments on slavery, destroying the enemy’s chief labor source simply made strategic sense.
2 posted on 09/27/2011 6:41:09 AM PDT by Thane_Banquo
4 posted on 09/27/2011 7:00:11 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)