<Tab/>The purpose of this paper is to discuss the American civil war during the periods of 1861 through 1865. This paper will look at how the war started, the purpose of the war. Who were the first soldiers, and who were allowed to fight and who were not. This paper will also look at blacks before the civil war, during the civil war and after the civil war. The writer will attempt …showed first 75 words of 2337 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2337 total…were sent back to the plantations as food supply was getting low for soldiers in the battlefield. Emancipation Proclamation allowed blacks both in Confederacy and the Union to be free, and to enjoy some of the basic necessities of life. Slave owners especially those who enjoyed the finer things in life and the ones with a capitalists mentality may not share the same views. Abraham Lincoln achieved his objective, because he stated, "Slavery was wrong"