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Today you will…Today you will… Examine the single bloodiest day of the Civil War

BATTLE OF ANTIETAMSEPTEMBER 1862

• LEE’S MESSENGER DROPS THE PLANS (wrapped around cigars) – falls into hands of Union

• With Lee’s plans in hand…McClellan attacks eventually Lee

Phase 1 – The Cornfield Phase 1 – The Cornfield

• Union and Confederates clash at Antietam, MD. (one of a few battles that took place on Northern soil)

• Mass devastation – After 3 hours of fighting…9,000 soldiers are dead

Phase 2 – The Sunken Road

• Next battle scene = Confederates are dug into a “sunken road”

• Union soldiers eventually outflank Confederates at the “Sunken Road”

Phase 3 – The Bridge Phase 3 – The Bridge

• Reinforcements come at the last minute to allow the Confederates to continue fighting

• 1862 – Lincoln has replaced McDowell with George McClellan as Commander of the Army of the East

• McClellan was a great student, but a cautious leader

George McClellan

Andy ReidHow are these How are these

two men two men similar?similar?

FIRE FIRE ANDY!ANDY!

Lincoln at Antietam

Lincoln visited Antietam

AFTER the battle urging McClellan to attack Lee’s

men

I am not happy with you, McClellan since you didn’t follow up Lee

BATTLE OF ANTIETAM

September 17, 1862 – 23,000 Americans lost their livesSeptember 17, 1862 – 23,000 Americans lost their livesBLOODIEST SINGLE DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY!BLOODIEST SINGLE DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY!

LINCOLN HAS THE VICTORY NEEDED FOR…

The Emancipation Proclamation The Emancipation Proclamation

Antietam(on battle chart)

WINNER

• UNION CLAIMS VICTORY AFTER THE CONFEDERATES LEAVE

IMPACT OF BATTLE

• Lincoln replaces McClellan

• BLOODIEST SINGLE DAY OF THE WAR

• Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation

DAY 1 VIDEO

NOTES

HIS SON, WILLIE, DIED

CONFEDERATESCONFEDERATES WERE WINNING THE WAR BY FIGHTING A DEFENISVE WAR; THIS WOULD CHANGE THEIR STRATEGY

LINCOLN NEEDS MORE SOLIDERS; NOT ENOUGH VOLUNTEERS

WORTH IT

EUROPEAN NATIONS (FRANCE/BRITAIN)

THEY RELIED ON THE SOUTH FOR COTTON

THEY HAD RECENTLY ABOLISHED SLAVERY (THEY’D BE HYPOCRITES)

IN HIS DESK

30 ACRE PATCH OF CORN

MOST LIKELY STOOD NEXT TO A FAMILY MEMBER

LEE’S BATTLE PLANIT WAS LEFT BEHIND, WRAPPED AROUND A

FEW CIGARS (FELL INTO UNION HANDS)

VERY CAUTIOUS; MADE EXCUSES NOT TO ATTACK

NO ONE ELSE

OBLITERATED; NOT MUCH LEFT

CAME IN ONE AFTER ANOTHER, LIKE WAVES

I HIT YOU, YOU HIT ME; NO DEFENSE

THEY HAVE MORE MEN

9,000

DAY 2 VIDEO

NOTES

THEY WERE BEING HELD CAPTIVE BY THE UNION

THEY’D JOIN LEE’S ARMY

LEE’S ARMY HAD NO UNDERWEAR, LOOKED HUNGRY…

INVADERS

ROAD THAT’S ERODED OVER TIME; MEN WERE COMPLETELY COVERED BY THE ROAD

THEY HAVE THEM TRAPPED

COULD HAVE POSSIBLY ENDED THE WAR EARLIER

DOESN’T WANT TO RISK LOSING HIS REMAINING TROOPS

CONFEDERATE TROOPS

CRIES OF WOUNDED SOLDIERS

A PHOTOGRAPHER

PICTURES OF THE DEAD AT ANTIETAM

HE SENT MCCLELLAN TO GET LEE’S ARMY, NOT LET HIM GO

PRELIMINARY DRAFT OF EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

PRESERVE THE UNIONSLAVERY

SLAVERY

THE WAR IS NOW ABOUT ENDING SLAVERY, FRANCE AND BRITAIN HAD ABOLISHED SLAVERY ALREADY (CAN’T HELP SOUTH NOW)

REPLACES/FIRES