The Emancipation Proclamation was an order given by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. The Proclamation stated that all slaves in the Confederate states were free. This did not include slave states that were not in rebellion or to the regions already controlled by the Union. The Proclamation ended up freeing 3.1 of the 4 million slaves in the United States.
The Emancipation Proclamation
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GettysburgThe battle of Gettysburg was fought on July 1 through 3, 1863, in what is now Adams County, Pennsylvania. Gettysburg was fought after Confederates won the Battle of Chancellorsville (Virginia), with an invasion of Pennsylvania by Robert E Lee and the Confederate Army. Shortly after the invasion the Union troops came and the battle began. The Union eventually won this battle. The battle of Gettysburg is considered to be a turning point in the Civil War. Before Gettysburg, the hopes of the Confederates were high, but when they lost, Lee and his troops were devastated.
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