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  "All persons held as slaves within any State shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free": Rare first War Department and fifth overall printing of the Emancipation Proclamation

  [LINCOLN, Abraham].

  [Emancipation Proclamation]. General Orders, No. 1. War Department Adjutant General’s Office, Washington, January 2, 1863.

  Washington: Government Printing Office, January 2, 1863.

  Rare first War Department and fifth overall printing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Twelvemo, General Orders No. 1 extracted from the larger volume of orders for 1863, 4 pages, disbound. President Lincoln had intended to issue the order earlier in 1862 but deliberately delayed its release until after the Union's strategic victory at Antietam, at which point he announced the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. (General Order No. 139, September 22, 1862) which declared that all slaves held in rebelling states would be forever free from the first day of January 1863. The text of the final Emancipation Proclamation, present in this order, is noted for its direct and decisive language: "By the President of the United States of America ... 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 a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they ma...

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