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All for the Union…and Emancipation, too: What the Civil War Was About  

Chandra Manning ▪ Winter 2012

One hundred fifty years after Confederate shots bombarded Fort Sumter, President Barack Obama officially proclaimed April 12, 2011, to be the first day of a four-year-long Civil War Sesquicentennial and called “upon all Americans to observe this Sesquicentennial with appropriate …



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