Post Civil War

The wounds inflicted during the Americsan Civil War would last for many years after the war officially ended.

During the War, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was supposed to free all slaves held in territory under Confederate control at the time of the Proclamation. In actuality, it did not.

Slaves were not freed in the remaining states and parts of the Confederacy until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment by 3/4 of the states, which did not occur until December of 1865, 8 months after the end of the war.

A good deal of ill will among the Southern survivors resulted from the resulting shift of political power to the North, the destruction inflicted on the South by the Union armies as the end of the war approached, and the Reconstruction program instituted in the South by the Union after the war's end.

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