I'm John Batchew with Professor Richard Caradine.

The new book is Righteous Strife,

a warring religious nationalist forged Lincoln's Union.

We're continuing the story from 1861, a very quiet period in the war.

Battle Bull Run is seen as a Confederate victory.

There is not another major action that year, but in 1862, the bloodletting begins in earnest. Lincoln has in mind that the emancipation of the African, of the slave,

of the freedmen who are held in slavery, that is now necessary or possible.

But he spends the year building up that case and waits for a victory or something like a victory on the battlefield.

What happens is the battles that are fought all that summer are inconclusive.

But at the end, in September, there is a battle that looks like a strategic success,

looks like it, although the bloodletting is ferocious on both sides.

And Lincoln decides that he's going to issue the Emancipation Proclamation on the first day of 1863.

That creates enormous what we call pushback in the 21st century.

And the professor now takes us to the conservative attacks and Lincoln's response following the Emancipation Proclamation.

Professor Lincoln has done what the first three years, two years of conflict thought was

impossible to do.

And the opposition is rallying.

We need to talk of the opposition because it's peace Democrats called copperheads,

is also pro-slavery voices.

We begin with a man named from Ohio named Valandigham.

Who was he?

Why is he important to the opposition?

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