” ....they FOLLOWED the directives and emancipation orders of their government, a government THEY ELECTED.”
Almost every state except for the Border States had outlawed slavery BY 1860. That does not mean that they loved the Negros Slaves but they thought it WRONG to enslave a fellow human being.
I have read letters of the soldiers and even the Abolitionist who lived among the Blacks became disenchanted.
Nevertheless, they, THE MILITARY, “FOLLOWED the directives and emancipation orders of their government....” all 330,000 OF THEM that died.
“Nevertheless, they, THE MILITARY, “FOLLOWED the directives and emancipation orders of their government....” “
Which, when it gets right down to it, was not to free anyone.
The Emancipation Proclamation, for instance, freed no one: It specifically did NOT apply to any area of the South that was under federal control, nor did it apply to any state or territory that was not “in rebellion,” so it did not apply to the neutral slave states or even those few Northern states that still had some slaves (granted, not many slaves). It only applied to the states still “in rebellion,” but as soon as any areas of those states came under federal control, the Emancipation Proclamation did not apply.
The Emancipation Proclamation was a ploy by Lincoln to try to stir up the slaves into an uprising against the Confederacy.
The only slaves that were “liberated” were those who agreed to join the Union forces to fight against the Confederates. Those who did not so agree were not freed, but were put under arrest and confined. That pissed off a good number of the Union troops who had to guard them.
What you meant to say here is: every Northern state had outlawed slavery by 1860, but no Southern or Border states outlawed it.
Some Northern states outlawed slavery gradually, such that by the 1860 census, New Jersey still reported 18 slaves, down from 12,000 in 1800.
New York reported 21,000 slaves in 1790, but by 1840 only 4 were left, and by 1850, none.
In the Border States of Missouri and Kentucky, slave populations were rising slowly in 1860, but not as fast as white populations.
In Border States of Maryland and Delaware actual numbers of slaves were falling slowly in 1860, even though neither state had outlawed it.