In the summer of 1862, as the Union moved to embrace hard war tactics and President Abraham Lincoln contemplated emancipation, the U.S. Congress debated and then passed a confiscation bill that declared “forever free” all slaves of Rebel owners and provided for the enlistment of men of African descent in the U.S. Army. When it …
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