Had the Confederacy lost the war in the spring of 1862, the South might have returned to the Union with slavery intact.

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At that time, President Lincoln had not yet issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which did not occur until September 1862. Therefore, if the Confederacy had surrendered prior to that, there would have been no legal basis for abolishing slavery in the states that returned to the Union.

Had the Confederacy Lost the War in the Spring of 1862