through enslavement would be gone if the United States won. The Emancipation Proclamation declared the enslaved in the rebelling states “forever free.” Then Lincoln declared that freedmen “will be received into the armed service of the United States.” Armed, emancipated African Americans wearing U.S. Army blue in vast numbers would fight against the Confederates who wanted to enslave them. Lee and the Confederates sowed the wind, and with the Emancipation Proclamation the whirlwind began.71 The Emancipation Proclamation brought out Lee’s anger and his true feelings. After Lincoln announced the
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