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Antietam
President Lincoln waited for this victory to release the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves in the Southern states (but not the Northern states).
Issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which he'd been wanting to do for several months, but had to wait for a Northern victory, to give him credibility.
It was the long-awaited Northern victory that enabled Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation without making it sound like a desperate measure.
He had to wait till there was a Northern victory, or it would look like a desperate measure.
Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation after the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam.
because the north was against slavery so he waited till they won to anounce to the south the emancipation proclamation
Before. Antietam was the unexpected Northern victory that gave Lincoln the credibility to issue the Proclamation without making it sound like a desperate measure.
Antietam (Sharpsburg). It was the unexpected Northern Victory that gave Lincoln the credibility to make the proclamation without making it sound like a desperate war-measure.
A Union Army victory, in the battle field.
Union General George B. McClellan's narrow victory over the Army of Northern Virginia gave President Lincoln his opportunity to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. The irony of better said, the paradox of McClellan's victory allowed Lincoln to fire the general who won the battle.
Southern.