| A | B |
|---|
| emancipate | free |
| Horace Greeley | abolitionist newspaper publisher |
| Abraham Lincoln | " If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ..." |
| Emancipation Proclamation | it freed enslaved people in the areas that were fighting the Union |
| 54th Massachusetts Infantry | African American troops that led the assault on Fort Wagner |
| preliminary | leading up to the main action |
| sustain | to keep going; to endure |
| January 1, 1863 | Lincoln issues the final Emancipation Proclamation |
| July 18, 1863 | Union attack on Fort Wagner begins |
| African Americans | 189,000 served in the Union army or navy |
