1. #5 - How does the battle of Antietam change the scope of the war. 11

2. Who’s the boss?
Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, & Jeb Stuart continue to defeat the Union
August 1862 Second Battle of Bull Run
The new Union General John Pope is defeated at Second Battle of Bull Run
General McClellan is rehired as the head of the Union Army

4. September 1862 Battle of Antietam
Sharpsburg, Maryland
Antietam Creek
Cigar box - - Union discovers Lee’s plan of attack

5. Battle of Antietam
General Lee’s Reasons for Attacking (Offensive Strategy – a big gamble!)
1) He was desperate for supplies for his army
2) The South would get International Recognition

6. Antietam
“Burnside Bridge”
“Bloody Lane”

7. Results of the Battle of Antietam
Lee’s army leaves the battlefield in bad shape
The Southern army is weak and vulnerable, but McClellan does not attack which could have possibly ended the war
McClellan is fired by Lincoln again

8. Lincoln’s reply to abolitionist Horace Greeley re: Confiscation Acts
Lincoln is fighting a political battle.
“My paramount object in the struggle is to save the Union, and it not either to save or 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…..What I do about slavery….I do because I believe it helps to save the Union.”
If Lincoln wants to change the goal of the war, he must have a military victory.

9. Lincoln’s Reasons for Issuing the Emancipation Proclamation
1) Get rid of the Rebels slave labor
2) Gave Northerners a worthy cause to fight for
3) 185,000 blacks joined the Union Army, mostly as laborers or spies
4) Ended the possibility of England or France joining the South
Cotton is no longer King, it is now King Wheat

10. Lincoln Issues the Emancipation Proclamation
Effective January 1, 1863
It freed only the slaves in rebel states WHY?
Lincoln was acting as Commander-in-Chief with this military order, it was not a legislative act.

12. The South’s Reaction
Jefferson Davis said it destroyed $4 billion in property.
Made reunion impossible

13. Issues with Great Britain
The Trent Affair
American warship stopped the HMS Trent and removed 2 Confederate diplomats