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The Union’s strategy for victory
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1862 BattleStateVictory Peninsula Campaign VAConfederate Seven Days VAConfederate Second Manassas VAConfederate Eastern Theater ROBERT E. LEE
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Antietam September 17, 1862 CASUALTIESUSACSA KILLED2,1081,546 WOUNDED9,5407,752 CAPT/MISS7531,018 TOTAL12,40110,316
You’ re fired!
Yeah, That!
This was a first.
The War? Time To
LINCOLN
“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.
“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
“What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union.” -- Abraham Lincoln (August 22, 1862)
Barriers TO EMANCIPATION:
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September 22, 1862
“On the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty- three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free….
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BY WHAT
“Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion…”
Measure A Necessary
“On the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty- three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free….
Areas Covered Areas NOT Covered
Areas Covered Areas NOT Covered
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THE UNION The North's new goals:
THE UNION The North's new goals: This has NOT changed.
THE UNIONSLAVES The North's new goals:
SLAVES The North's new goals: This is a new development.
Diplomatic
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The Old Flag Never Touched the Ground, which depicts the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment at the attack on Fort Wagner, South Carolina, on July 18, 1863.