1 Place the sweet potatoes on a rimmed baking sheet lined with foil. 2  Bake until tender, about 45 minutes. 3  Make a slit in the top of each sweet potato. 4  Top with 1 tablespoon of butter and season with the salt and pepper.
The Emancipation Proclamation also allowed for the enrollment of freed slaves into the United States military. During the war nearly 200,000 blacks, most of them ex-slaves, joined the Union Army.
1 The Emancipation Proclamation made the abolition of slavery, at least within the Confederacy, a definite goal of the war.  Obviously, with the abolition of slavery becoming an official goal of the war, there was a great incentive for African-Americans to join the Union Army.