1. How many men were lost in America’s biggest
battle?

2. Antietam: The bloodiest day in
American history

3. 1862: Year of victories for the North.
Shiloh is a huge strategic win.
James river of Virginia is taken.
The fall of New Orleans.

4. Glass half empty, half full for the North.
Half hearted attempt to move up
the Mississippi.
Loss at Second Manassas.
(Second Bull Run.)
Robert E. Lee always out maneuvering
George McClellan.

5. Confederate army changes the strategy.
Summer of 1862, Union Army in
confusion.
Confederates plan to attack
Tennessee, Kentucky, and
Maryland at once.

6. Lee Invades Maryland: Why it’s important
to The South.
Bring Maryland into the
Confederacy.
●Manpower
In need of supplies
●Pennsylvania
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
●Major railroad

7. Who done it? Special Orders 191, details of Lee’s plan in Maryland.
McClellan knows everything.
Lee decides to fight.

8. Bloody Antietam: How it unfolds.
Confederates trying to hold Sharpsburg, Maryland.
Many battles within the THE BATTLE.

9. Bloody Antietam: How it unfolds.
Confederates hold this road.
At 1:00 P.M. Union takes it.
“Bloody Lane.”
This bridge doesn’t go
to the Union until 3:00.
“Burnside’s Bridge”

10. The deadly results of Antietam
Robert E. Lee loses 1/3 of his fighting force. Retreats
To Virginia.
25,000 men die on both sides. Bloodiest day in
American history.

11. Consequences of Antietam.
First Confederate advance
Fails.
Maryland kept out of
Confederacy.
Little hope of foreign back up
for The South.