Chapter 15- Section 4

Daily Life during the War

1st •Emancipation Proclamation•54th Massachusetts Infantry

2nd •Copperheads•Habeas corpus

3rd •Difficult lives of Soldiers•Clara Barton

Topics for Today

Emancipation ProclamationDemocratic Party

worried that slaves would take jobs

Abolitionists argued that the Union would continue to be divided

Emancipation would anger voters

Slave labor helping the Confederates.

Emancipation Proclamation

Consisted mostly of free African Americans1863 Led a heroic charge on South Carolina’s

Fort Wagner

54th Massachusetts Infantry

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54th Massachusetts Infantry

CopperheadsNorthern Democrats

Called for the war to end

Peace Democrats

Midwesterners that sympathized with the South and opposed slavery

Copperheads

Habeas corpus

•Habeas corpus- a constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment

•Lincoln suspended the right to habeas corpus

Difficult Lives of Soldiers

Clara Barton• The “angel of the battlefield”

•Organized the collection of medicine and supplies for delivery to the battlefield.

•Volunteered at the field hospitals

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