USA wins Second Bull Run and wins it big

Suppose the USA practically destroys the CSA army at Second Bull Run does this end the war? If so, on the one hand the war ends without almost three years of loss thereafter. OTOH the CSA has lasted long enough for its people to feel for it. And the northerners to work up a good hate.

If the CSA collapses before Lincoln puts out that war measure, the Emancipation Proclamation, what is the status of slavery and how, if ever, does it change:confused:
 
Lincoln will be ready to issue the Emancipation Proclamation if the Union win at Bull Run in August, so that aspect isn't that much different.
 
It doesn't destroy the CS Army here. It might destroy the Army of Northern Virginia if Porter's Corps remains conveniently isolating Longstreet's two-thirds of the ANV from Jackson's one-third. The entirety of the CS Army is a much different requirement. In 1862 the losses sustained to destroy Lee's army in a single battle will be far too prohibitive to enable the Union to topple the CSA in one go, but at the same time you've got a reality where the CSA's in the span of a single year now lost its largest city and what would have proven itself to be its best army. Davis, of course, won't quit the war until he's captured and imprisoned, so......
 
If the Emancipation Proclamation were made, on the terms of OTL, saying that slaves in rebeliosu states would be free might some states have ended the rebellion to secure the traitors' continued control of human property.
 
Could this lead to guerilla warfare later on from CS troops unwilling to cope with their loses? Better question: With the losses that the CSA just sustained at 2nd Bull Run, would they consider raising black units to balance thier current losses, even if it is only a short term measure?
 
Could this lead to guerilla warfare later on from CS troops unwilling to cope with their loses? Better question: With the losses that the CSA just sustained at 2nd Bull Run, would they consider raising black units to balance thier current losses, even if it is only a short term measure?

The CSA will only consider that when it's too far gone for that to matter.
 
If the Emancipation Proclamation were made, on the terms of OTL, saying that slaves in rebeliosu states would be free might some states have ended the rebellion to secure the traitors' continued control of human property.

It's possible as the loss of the AONV will make the entire Eastern Seaboard vulnerable and as the West isn't going well either some states might decide to cut their losses and return to preserve slavery in their state.
 
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