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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