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First he waited until the war was going better for the Union, not wanting to appear that the freeing of the Southern slaves was a desperate move. The Union's victory came in September when it repulsed Lee's invasion of the North at the Battle of Antietam.

Lincoln issued a preliminary draft of the proclamation on September 22 that warned the Confederate States that if they did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863, he would issue a second proclamation declaring the slaves of those states "forever free". He was basically giving the South time to change their minds.

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