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14: Battle of Antietam
“Bloodiest Single Day of the War”
September 17, 1862
Union Victory
23,000 casualties
Doc 15: After Antietam
Lincoln and McClellan
Lincoln meeting with
McClellan after the
Battle of Antietam
McClellan was fired for
not pursuing Lee when
he had the chance.
“He has a case of the
slows” Lincoln
remarked of General
McClellan.
Doc 16: Emancipation
Proclamation 1863
Now, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United
States… designate the following States and parts of
States in rebellion against the United States: Arkansas,
Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia,
(except the forty-eight counties designated as West
Virginia.
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose
aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as
slaves within said designated States, and parts of
States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the
Executive government of the United States, including the
military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and
maintain the freedom of said persons.
Doc 17: Emancipation in 1863
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
January 1, 1863
Did NOT end
Slavery in USA
Only Freed Slaves in
Confederacy
But Changed goals
of the Civil War
(Slaves only totally
freed in USA with 13th
Amendment passage
after war
WHY WAS THE CIVIL WAR FOUGHT???
BEFORE Emancipation Proclamation
To restore the Union – end rebellion
AFTER Emancipation Proclamation
– To restore the Union AND to free the slaves
DOC 18: African American
Recruiting Poster
DOC 19:
Recruitment of Black Union Soldiers in 1863
The Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
Regiment was the first military unit consisting of
black soldiers to be raised in the North during the
Civil War. Prior to 1863, no effort was made to recruit
black troops as Union soldiers.
The passage of the Emancipation Proclamation in
December of 1862 provided the impetus for the use
of free black men as soldiers and, at a time when
state governors were responsible for the raising of
regiments for federal service, Massachusetts was
the first to respond with the formation of the Fiftyfourth Regiment.
African-Americans
in Civil War Battles
Black Troops Freeing Slaves
The 54th’s Assault on Ft. Wagner
July 18th, 1863
DOC 21: The North
Initiates the Draft,
1863
• Conscription/Draft:
(def) forced
enrollment in
military service
Doc 22: Conscription / Draft
Rich men can buy their way out of military
service with $300 fee.
Poor Northern Immigrants complain the Civil War is“A
Rich man’s war and poor man’s fight.”
Doc 23: Recruiting Irish
Immigrants in NYC
Doc 24: NYC Draft Riots, (July 1316, 1863)
"For months after the riots the public life of the city
became a more noticeably white domain."
Doc 25: A “Pogrom”
(Riot) Against Blacks
Doc 26a- What was the only major battle
fought in the North?
26b-The South Invades the
North
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
July 1-3, 1863
Turning point for the North –
North Starts Winning war
“The Blood Stained the Grass Red”
45,000 Killed in 3 Days
Doc 27a: Gettysburg
Casualties
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
November 19, 1863
“Four score and seven years ago
our fathers brought forth on this
continent, a new nation, conceived
in Liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created
equal.”
27b- Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a
new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men
are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any
nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great
battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a
final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might
live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can
not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here,
have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will
little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what
they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the
unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for
which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve
that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall
have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the
people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Union 6 week Siege
of the fort and city
Gain control of the
Mississippi River
Cut Confederacy in
Half
Vicksburg, MS
In 1863,Lincoln
begins his
plans for the
Reconstruction
of the Union
(North and
South)
(He see’s that
South in losing
steam)
Doc 28: Inflation in the South
Doc 29a: “War
is cruelty. There
is no use trying
to reform it. The
crueler it is, the
sooner it will be
over.”
-Northern
General,William
Tecumseh
Sherman
March to the
Sea. 1864
Doc 29b: SHERMAN’S MARCH TO
THE SEA
Atlanta to Savannah, GA - November, 1864
“SCORCHED EARTH”
tactic Destroyed
everything in sight:
Farms, Towns, Railroad
= TOTAL WAR!!!
Terrorizes Southerners
Cripples Confederacy