Basically loyal law abiding citizen who were being tricked or antisecession and minority of extremists. Leaving slavery allowed would hopefully when im back. Thats the expectation. But after a full year of war and despite lincoln effort to spare their property and spare their feelings, precious few slaveowners producing any active sympathy to the union or union policies. This lack of support is supposedly prounion slaveowners Isolde Marbury son in the light at the bad news that was around that time coming from the Virginia Battlefield of 1862. Meanwhile, it is painfully clear that confederate armies were everywhere benefiting greatly from the forced labor performed for them by slaves, and placing artillery and this sketch comic you read to be sick and wounded, tending horses, cooking and cleaning, raising the push for the population and the army. More and more Republican Leaders now therefore concluded that attempting to fight the war without offending the end he was impossible. Conclu