Union - Government
President Lincoln presents the Emancipation Proclamation to Congress.
"That on the first day of January in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves, within any state, or designated part of state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."
After long contemplation the President had awaited a military victory and now, after Antietam, came the public announcement of the proclamation.
He also called for the restoration of the Union and congressional approval of compensated emancipation.
Virginia
Union troops reoccupy Harper's Ferry, which had been evacuated by the Confederates.
There is a skirmish at Ashby's Gap.
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Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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