1. 14: Battle of Antietam “Bloodiest Single Day of the War”
September 17, 1862
Union Victory
23,000 casualties

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Doc 17: Emancipation in 1863

5. 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

6. 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

7. DOC 18: African American Recruiting Poster

8. 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 Fifty-fourth Regiment.

9. African-Americans in Civil War Battles

10. Black Troops Freeing Slaves

11. The 54th’s Assault on Ft. Wagner July 18th, 1863

12. DOC 21: The North Initiates the Draft, 1863
Conscription/Draft: (def) forced enrollment in military service

13. 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.”

14. Doc 23: Recruiting Irish Immigrants in NYC

15. Doc 24: NYC Draft Riots, (July 13-16, 1863)

16. "For months after the riots the public life of the city became a more noticeably white domain."

17. Doc 25: A “Pogrom” (Riot) Against Blacks

18. Doc 26a- What was the only major battle fought in the North?

19. 26b-The South Invades the North

20. BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG July 1-3, 1863 Turning point for the North – North Starts Winning war

21. “The Blood Stained the Grass Red” 45,000 Killed in 3 Days

22. Doc 27a: Gettysburg Casualties

23. 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.”

24. 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.

25. Vicksburg, MS Union 6 week Siege of the fort and city
Gain control of the Mississippi River
Cut Confederacy in Half
Vicksburg, MS

26. In 1863,Lincoln begins his plans for the Reconstruction of the Union (North and South)
(He see’s that South in losing steam)

27. Doc 28: Inflation in the South

28. -Northern General,William Tecumseh Sherman
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

29. 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