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Thread #10314   Message #71099
Posted By: Pete Peterson
15-Apr-99 - 12:20 PM
Thread Name: Gettysberg
Subject: RE: Gettysberg
Emancipation. Yes the Prelimiary Proclamation was issued after Antietam, but Lincoln then had to decide whether or not to go ahead & issue the final document on 1/1/63, and based on the early news from Stones River, he did. Or that's what the books say, I wasn't there myself.