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militia act

1862 law that allowed African American soldiers to serve in the Union military

antietam

A battle near a sluggish little creek, it proved to be the bloodiest single day battle in American History with over 26,000 lives lost in that single day.

Emancipation Proclamation

Issued by abraham lincoln on september 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free

contraband of war

The practice of treating escaped blacks as property of military value subject to confiscation.-a new status for certain people who escaped slavery or those who affiliated with Union forces.

john c.fremont

an American military officer, explorer, the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States, and the first presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform in opposition to slavery.