 There's a back and forth there. It's a manpower problem at its heart, but it's also a laws of war question about how these people are gonna be treated if they're captured. Now. Barton Myers teaches history at Washington Lee University, speaking at Shenandoah University at the Civil War Institute. By 1863, the US Army had a new weapon at its disposal, the Emancipation Proclamation. And one zealous commander,