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The Proclamation came during the tenure of Henry Halleck as General-in-Chief, and just at the time when George McLellan was being relieved as commander of the Army of the Potomac (for failing to pursue and destroy Lee's army after Antietam), to be replaced by Ambrose Burnside.

In the West, at this time, Grant was preparing his long and difficult campaign along the Mississippi that would end with the surrender of Vicksburg.

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