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BE PREPARED… Today you will…
Grab the Antietam Video packet Today you will… Examine the single bloodiest day of the Civil War
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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
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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
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Phase 2 – The Sunken Road Next battle scene = Confederates are dug into a “sunken road” Union soldiers eventually outflank Confederates at the “Sunken Road”
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Phase 3 – The Bridge Reinforcements come at the last minute to allow the Confederates to continue fighting
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How are these two men similar?
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
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I am not happy with you, McClellan since you didn’t follow up Lee
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
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BATTLE OF ANTIETAM September 17, 1862 – 23,000 Americans lost their lives BLOODIEST SINGLE DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY!
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LINCOLN HAS THE VICTORY NEEDED FOR…
The Emancipation Proclamation
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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
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DAY 1 VIDEO NOTES
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LINCOLN NEEDS MORE SOLIDERS; NOT ENOUGH VOLUNTEERS
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
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IN HIS DESK THEY RELIED ON THE SOUTH FOR COTTON
EUROPEAN NATIONS (FRANCE/BRITAIN) THEY RELIED ON THE SOUTH FOR COTTON THEY HAD RECENTLY ABOLISHED SLAVERY (THEY’D BE HYPOCRITES) IN HIS DESK
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30 ACRE PATCH OF CORN LEE’S BATTLE PLAN NO ONE ELSE
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
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9,000 THEY HAVE MORE MEN 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
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DAY 2 VIDEO NOTES
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THEY’D JOIN LEE’S ARMY INVADERS
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
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THEY HAVE THEM TRAPPED COULD HAVE POSSIBLY ENDED THE WAR EARLIER DOESN’T WANT TO RISK LOSING HIS REMAINING TROOPS
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CONFEDERATE TROOPS A PHOTOGRAPHER CRIES OF WOUNDED SOLDIERS
PICTURES OF THE DEAD AT ANTIETAM
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PRESERVE THE UNION PRELIMINARY DRAFT OF EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
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
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