In the South, most slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was fighting to ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to ... territorial expansion. The South wished to take slavery into the western territories, while the North was committed to keeping ...

Sherman, a West Point graduate, was superintendent of a military school in Louisiana when South Carolina ... it is conceivable that the North would not have won the Civil War and that the Union ...