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The Emancipation Proclamation
The Confederacy Gains Momentum
• When the Union soldiers first tried to march
into Virginia, they were beaten back
• The Confederacy was than able to make their
way into Maryland
• The Confederacy was poised to continue
North and potentially win the war
The Battle of Antietam
• McClellan didn’t follow right away when Lee
retreated
• First day at Antietam was the bloodiest day in
the Civil War
• The Union wins but they could have ended the
whole war in 1862!
The Aftermath
• Lincoln fires McClellan who later goes on to
run against Lincoln for president
• “If McClellan won’t use the army, I would like
to”—Lincoln
• Lincoln is looking for that offensive strategy
that McClellan just does not have
The Emancipation Proclamation
• Five days after Antietam, President Lincoln
changed the aim of the war
• With this proclamation he declared all slaves
to be free
• The war to save the Union became the war to
end slavery
The Battle of Vicksburg
• In the spring of 1863 the Anaconda Plan was
really starting to work
• Vicksburg, Mississippi was a key point in the
west to cut the South in half
• Grant trapped the Southern army there until
after 48 days they surrendered