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.
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West Quoddy Head, ME., is the easternmost point, located 2,507 miles from the geographic center of the United States (including Hawaii and Alaska). The westernmost point is Cape Wrangell, Alaska, which is 3,625 miles west of center.