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Proclaiming Emancipation
===-Abraham Lincoln changed the nature of the war by enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation. This freed all enslaved people in states still rebelling. Lincoln couldn't end slavery in the border states and didn't want to endanger their loyalty. The Proclamation transformed the conflict over preserving the Union into a war of liberation.===

===__ The Turning Point __ Sherman's March to the Sea -His troops set fire to destroy Atlanta's railroads, warehouses, mills and factories. The fires destroyed more than one-third of Atlanta. On November 15, 1864 Sherman led his troops across Georgia. The purpose was to understand the horrors of war and to pressure them to giving up the struggle. ===