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Lincoln first discussed the proclamation with his cabinet in July 1862. He drafted his "preliminary proclamation" and read it to Secretary of State [[William Seward]], and Secretary of Navy [[Gideon Welles]], on July 13. Seward and Welles were at first speechless, then Seward referred to possible anarchy throughout the South and resulting foreign intervention; Welles apparently said nothing. On July 22, Lincoln presented it to his entire cabinet as something he had determined to do and he asked their opinion on wording.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/almintr.html | title=Emancipation Proclamation | work=Lincoln Papers | publisher=Library of Congress and Knox College | year=2002 | access-date=June 28, 2013}}</ref> Although Secretary of War Edwin Stanton supported it, Seward advised Lincoln to issue the proclamation after a major Union victory, or else it would appear as if the Union was giving "its last shriek of retreat".<ref>{{cite book|last=Goodwin|first=Doris Kearns|title=Team of Rivals|year=2005|publisher=Blithedale Productions|location=New York}}</ref> Walter Stahr, however, writes, "There are contemporary sources, however, that suggest others were involved in the decision to delay", and Stahr quotes them.<ref>Stahr, Walter, ''Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary'', New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017, p. 226.</ref>
In September 1862, the [[Battle of Antietam]] gave Lincoln the victory he needed to issue the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. In the battle, though the Union suffered heavier losses than the Confederates and [[General McClellan]] allowed the escape of [[Robert E. Lee]]'s retreating troops, Union forces turned back a Confederate invasion of Maryland, eliminating more than a quarter of Lee's army in the process. This marked a
[[File:Emancipation Proclamation - LOC 04067 - restoration1.jpg|thumb|1864 reproduction of the Emancipation Proclamation from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division|left]]
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