Emancipation would vastly increase the stakes of the war. It became a war for âa new birth of freedom,â as Lincoln stated in the Gettysburg Address, a war that would transform Southern society by destroying its basic institution.
Sponsored Topics. Bay Head is a Borough in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 968. Bay Head is situated on the Barnegat Peninsula, a long, narrow barrier peninsula that separates Barnegat Bay from the Atlantic Ocean.
Delaware Bay, inlet of the North Atlantic Ocean, on the east coast of the United States, forming part of the New JerseyâDelaware state border. The bay extends southeastward for 52 miles (84 km) from the junction of the Delaware River with the Alloway Creek to the entrance (12 miles [19 km] wide) between Cape May, N.J., and Cape Henlopen, Del. Bordered mainly by marshy lowlands, the bay is an important link in the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.