to the Union cause and strengthened the Union both militarily and politically, and acted as a milestone along the road to slavery's final destruction.
             The South had always held a grudge towards the North for trying to change their way of life, and now with the Emancipation Proclamation their grudge grew into full-fledged hatred. The South was certain that the North would use their former slaves against them, and that made something within the Rebels flare up, and fight harder. The North now had an a
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