President Abraham Lincoln announces his plan for the Emancipation Proclamation following the Union Army of the Potomac's successful defense of Maryland during the Antietam Campaign.
The office of the United States Postmaster General is established, updating the position first held by Benjamin Franklin in the Continental Congress.
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