While it wasn't immediately following, the Battle of Antietam and the Union victory there gave President Lincoln the push to issue the proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on January 1, 1863.
The Battle of Antietam was not a clear victory for neither the Confederate nor the Union armies.
The Britisn had been taking this battle on Northern soil as the test of Confederate viability. If Lee were to win, they would grant recognition to the Confederacy and send military aid. If they did this, France was likely to follow. This would have made a big impact on the war.
The Battle of Fredericksburg was an overwhelming Confederate victory. The Confederates were well fortified in their defensive positions. The Union Army under the newly appointed Commander Ambrose Burnside made numerous attacks against the Confederate positions and were repulsed each time with great loss of life of the Union soldiers. Eventually, Burnside's Generals refused to obey when he ordered more such frontal attacks. The battle had such an effect on the Union Army that Burnside was replaced as Commander, and at the Battle of Gettysburg at the end of "Pickett's Charge" when the situation was reversed,the Union troops were loudly chanting"Fredericksburg","Fredericksburg" because the bitterness of that memory was still very strong.
The Battle of Antietam was fought on land between Sharpsburg Maryland and the Antietam Creek on September 17th, 1862. The Union won this battle.
Antietam was considered a Northern victory.
Retreated to Virginia, where they would soon win a decisive victory at Fredericksburg.
they had a huge a positive affect
The battle of Antietam or Sharpsburg prevented the Confederacy's Army of Northern Virginia under Gen. Lee from invading the northern states. The battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville were Confederate victories preventing the US forces from taking the Confederate capital of Richmond.
The Battle of Fredericksburg was a lop-side Confederate victory by the Army of Northern Virginia under command of general Robert E. Lee.
The battle of Fredericksburg was not a Union victory but a fiasco. It showed that Burnside had been promoted above his level of incompetence.
The battle's outcome was inconclusive, but the North claimed victory.
Before. Antietam was the unexpected Northern victory that gave Lincoln the credibility to issue the Proclamation without making it sound like a desperate measure.
the battle was a strategic union victory.
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.
Northern newspapers hailed the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam. When the news about the lack of a Union follow up became known, Republican newspapers blamed McClellan while Democratic newspapers blamed Secretary of War Edwin Stanton for that failure.
The battle of Fredericksburg happened Dec.11-15,1862.