Tag: McClellan

• Know Your History: What the Emancipation Proclamation Really Did

  It freed the slaves. Not really. What’s the deal? Let’s break it down a little so we can understand exactly why Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was a master stroke of genius – even if it didn’t free one slave! It was late summer in 1962 and the war between the Union and Confederacy was not…

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  September 1, 2015

  Civil War, History & Culture

  13th amendment, Antietam, civil war, did the emancipation free slaves, Emancipation Proclamation, general lee, Lincoln, McClellan, slavery