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History of Tolson’s Chapel in Sharpsburg, Maryland One of the great ironies of the American Civil War occurred in Maryland with President Lincoln’s issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation following the Union “victory” on the Antietam battlefield near Sharpsburg in September 1862. The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in the rebellion states in January 1863. Maryland, how