The southerners that were not allowed to be soldiers until the end of the war were the soon to be freed slaves.
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</span><span>The American Civil War was an internal conflict fought in the United
States from 1861 to 1865. The Union faced secessionists in eleven Southern
states grouped together as the Confederate States of America.</span>
There were several actions of the government around the turn of the century that social Darwinists would disapproved of, but one of the major ones was aid to the poor.
