Burying the dead at Battle of Antietam Sept. 17,1862. Just by happenstance, the first Springfield-based regiment, the 10th Massachusetts, missed the battle by a day.

Professor William Harris talked about Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War Battle of Antietam, and the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862.

The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest single day in American history, and the partial victory by Union troops led Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. Monday marks the 150th ...

Harold Holzer spoke about the battle of Antietam, particularly the involvement of President Lincoln. Topics included his relations with the troops, foreign relations, the Emancipation Proclamation ...

When President Lincoln visited the valley of Antietam a few weeks after the bloody day to congratulate his Army of the Potomac on the victory, he also wanted to give his procrastinating commander ...

Lincoln, who had been awaiting any kind of military success to buoy his controversial order, told his cabinet after Antietam: “I made the promise to myself and to my Maker” that if Gen. Robert ...

In The Long Road to Antietam, historian Richard Slotkin traces how both Northern and Southern strategies changed in the summer of 1862, when both sides committed to an all-out total war, and ...

Lincoln had to wait for a Union victory to issue his Emancipation Proclamation. That victory came 160 years ago at the Battle of Antietam.

So on Sept. 22, 1862, after a victory at Antietam, he publicly announced a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all enslaved people free in the rebellious states as of Jan. 1, 1863.

Abraham Lincoln, at Antietam in 1862 with security guard Allan Pinkerton (left) and Maj. Gen. John McClernand, has far less military experience than Jefferson Davis, having served only as a ...

Abraham Lincoln issued the "preliminary" Emancipation Proclamation on this day in history, Sept. 22, 1862, announcing the slaves would be freed on Jan. 1, 1863.