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Analyze The Reasons For Joining The Army

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When General John C. Frémont of Missouri and General David Hunter of South Carolina issued decrees that freed slaves in their military districts and allowed them to join the military, their higher-ups repealed their orders. Although, by the middle of 1862, the growing amount of former slaves and the shrinking number of volunteering whites, along with the progressively demanding faculty needs of the Union army convinced the government to start reassessing the ban on black

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