When they wrote this song they made it about the Vietnam war. They felt that rich politicians started the wars for their benefit and have all the poor people die for them.
        
             
        
        
        
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the answer is the second ,shy
 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
<u>It is true</u>. <em><u>On January 1, 1863</u></em>, as the nation approached its third year of civil war, President Abraham Lincoln issued the<u> final Emancipation Proclamation</u>. <u>The preliminary Proclamation</u> was issued the year before, <em><u>on September 22nd</u></em>. <u>It declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the Southern rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."</u>
 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
The commanding general and his troops were overly confident of victory and took foolhardy chances in battle.