September 22 in American History
Days after the Union's narrow victory at Antietam, Lincoln announced that enslaved people in any Confederate state still in rebellion on January 1, 1863 would be declared free. It was a warning and a wartime measure as much as a moral one — the full Proclamation followed exactly 101 days later.
In 1862: the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Days after the Union's narrow victory at Antietam, Lincoln announced that enslaved people in any Confederate state still in rebellion on January 1, 1863 would be declared free.
Days after the Union's narrow victory at Antietam, Lincoln announced that enslaved people in any Confederate state still in rebellion on January 1, 1863 would be declared free. It was a warning and a wartime measure as much as a moral one — the full Proclamation followed exactly 101 days later.
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