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.
Anyway, as you know, during the Civil War, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. He hadnât changed his position about the underlying constitutional issue, but he justified the proclamation as a war measure, necessary to weaken the Confederacyâs ability to continue the war.