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THIS DAY IN VIRGINIA HISTORY

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January 05, 1863

Broadside 1863 .M6 FF, Special Collections, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

The Emancipation Proclamation Was Posted in Winchester

This broadside was published in Winchester on January 5, 1863, to give public notice of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Brigadier General Robert Huston Milroy (1816–1890), of Indiana, commanding the United States Army units then posted in Winchester, pronounced the proclamation in effect, thereby freeing all enslaved Virginians in Winchester and Frederick County.