• Inside the Lincoln Sitting Room

    Lincoln Home

    National Historic Site Illinois

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Did You Know?

Carpenter's Portrain entitled:

Lincoln issued the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, five days after the battle of Antietam.  He visited the battlefield near Sharpsburg, Maryland on October 1-4, 1862.  Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Illinois