1576338 Re-enactment of Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation, 1866; (add.info.: The first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the cabinet\' Re-enactment of Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation on July 22, 1862. Depicted, from left to right are: Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, President Lincoln, Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, Caleb B. Smith, Secretary of the Interior, William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General, and Edward Bates, Attorney General.); Universal History Archive/UIG; out of copyright.