click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document ... emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation.

On July 22, 1862, Lincoln showed a draft of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet ... Finally, on April 18, 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate ...

On June 19, 1865, troops came to Galveston two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the historic document that ... but the Emancipation Proclamation added "moral force" to ...