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.
5. The Emancipation Proclamation didnât actually free all of the slaves. Since Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as a military measure, it didnât apply to border slave states like Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, all of which had remained loyal to the Union.he Emancipation Proclamation didnât actually free all of the slaves. Since Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as a military measure, it didnât apply to border slave states like Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, all of which had remained loyal to the Union.