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 Grab the Antietam Video packet
Today you will…
 Examine the single bloodiest day of the
Civil War
BATTLE OF ANTIETAM
SEPTEMBER 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
• 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
• 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
Andy Reid
How are these
two men
similar?
FIRE
ANDY!
George McClellan
Lincoln at Antietam
I am not happy with you,
McClellan since you didn’t
follow up Lee
Lincoln visited
Antietam
AFTER the
battle urging
McClellan to
attack Lee’s
men
BATTLE OF ANTIETAM
September 17, 1862 – 23,000 Americans lost their lives
BLOODIEST SINGLE DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY!
LINCOLN HAS THE
VICTORY NEEDED FOR…
The Emancipation Proclamation
Antietam
(on battle chart)
WINNER
IMPACT OF BATTLE
• UNION CLAIMS VICTORY AFTER
THE CONFEDERATES LEAVE
• Lincoln replaces McClellan
• BLOODIEST SINGLE DAY OF THE
WAR
• Lincoln issues the Emancipation
Proclamation
DAY 1
VIDEO
NOTES
HIS SON, WILLIE, DIED
CONFEDERATES
CONFEDERATES 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 PLAN
IT 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 UNION
SLAVERY
SLAVERY
THE WAR IS NOW ABOUT ENDING SLAVERY, FRANCE AND BRITAIN
HAD ABOLISHED SLAVERY ALREADY (CAN’T HELP SOUTH NOW)
REPLACES/FIRES