Funeral directors are employed primarily at funeral homes, which are located virtually everywhere. They are responsible for a number of tasks involved with funerals, including writing obituaries, embalming bodies, arranging burials and more.
On this day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which sets a date for the freedom of more than 3 million black slaves in the United States and recasts the Civil War as a fight against slavery.
The Emancipation Proclamation was signed January 1, 1863. Lincoln issued the Executive Order under his authority as Commander In Chief of the Army and Navy under Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution of the United States.he southern states wanted to have slaves. Since Jefferson Davis was their president (or was soon to be) â¦ the southerners believed that Lincoln had no power over them. Lincoln did not include the boarder states for fear they would join the Confederate States of America in protest.