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What was a key motivation for the battle of Antietam

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Answer:This Union victory also affected the Union war effort in another important way. Saving the Union had been the initial motivation for pursuing the war with the Confederacy, but on September 22, 1862, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

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