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Lincoln first discussed the idea with his cabinet in July 1862, but the cabinet's advice and Lincoln's own feeling was that he should wait to announce the Proclamation until after a Union battlefield victory, so it would not appear to be a last desperate shriek from a losing nation. Waiting for a victory took a long time, before finally the Union army delivered what looked to be close enough at Antietam, which was really a tactical draw, but the Confederates pulled back afterward. Lincoln announced the preliminary Proclamation five days after the battle, on September 22, 1862. The Proclamation did not take effect until January 1, 1863.

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