On Sept. 22, 1862, partly in response to the heavy losses inflicted at the Battle of Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, threatening to free all the ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, warning that any state still in open rebellion at the start of the new year would see all ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation is going to be on display at the N.C. Museum of History this spring. Officials from the museum and N.C. Freedom Monument Park are ...

Abraham Lincoln is responsible for one of the boldest and most far-reaching uses of executive powers in American history by his announcement that enslaved people would soon be "forever free" on this ...

(WDBJ) - On September 22nd, 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It was a threat to free all enslaved people in the Confederacy if those states did not return to the ...

The Civil War was the darkest period in American history. But from the midst of the horror came a moment of hope. Today marks the 160th anniversary of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, issued ...

WASHINGTON (WHTM) — In September 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Then in January of 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. One of the details that ...

(Updated 9/19/2014) The National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs will commemorate the September 22, 1862 anniversary of President Lincoln’s preliminary proclamation that he would on January 1, ...

On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln put the South on notice. His preliminary Emancipation Proclamation warned the Confederacy that if it did not end its rebellion against the United States ...