While indeed most northerners had agreed with Lincoln’s views on the topic of slavery shown by the letter written by Phineas Hager in a letter in 1864 where he says “...the more I learn of the cursed institution of Slavery, the more I feel willing to endure, for its final destruction… After this war is over, this whole country will undergo a change for the better…” And so on and so forth. He states what you would expect every Union soldier to say, that they are happy and such BUT, this was not the case for every northern fighter. Union Colonel Marcus Spiegel wrote in a letter “I do not want to fight for Lincoln’s Negro proclamation one day longer than I can help help,... In fact the whole army” not true actually, fun fact, ¨is discouraged and
