@GrouchoTex
I would be willing to bet THOSE little factoids are not taught in our public schools,and most likely,not even in the private schools.
Sometimes history can just be so damn inconvenient,can't it? It shines a searchlight on the lie that the war was about slavery.
Nope. Union Occupied States which had not seceded were not included in the proclamation. Besides, the war had been going on. We won't talk about desertions in Union ranks because it was one thing to fight to preserve the Union, quite another to free slaves, nor the Draft Riots in New York later the same year.
Seems folks just were not so altruistic as the Yankee History books claimed...