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On July 22, 1862, President Lincoln surprised his cabinet by presenting to them a draft of his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln accepted the advice of his secretary of state, Seward to delay any action on the document until a suitable Union battlefield victory was accomplished.

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