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Constitution Day
Emancipation Nation
On September 17, 1862, Union and Confederate troops squared off at Antietam Creek in the first major battle of the Civil War on Northern soil. By sunset, almost 23,000 men lay dead or wounded but the Union had won a desperately needed strategic victory.
Battle of Antietam
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September 17, 1862
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John Newton, slave ship captain turned preacher and author of “Amazing Grace,” born
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July 24, 1725
Frederick Douglass makes his dramatic escape from slavery in Maryland
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September 3, 1838
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain begins
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June 27, 1864
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Abraham Lincoln read first draft of Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet
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July 22, 1862
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Novelist Ernest Gaines born
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January 15, 1933
Henry David Thoreau dies
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May 6, 1862
Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia
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May 1, 1863
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