1. BE PREPARED… Today you will…
Grab the Antietam Video packet
Today you will…
Examine the single bloodiest day of the Civil War

2. 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

3. 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

4. Phase 2 – The Sunken Road
Next battle scene = Confederates are dug into a “sunken road”
Union soldiers eventually outflank Confederates at the “Sunken Road”

5. Phase 3 – The Bridge
Reinforcements come at the last minute to allow the Confederates to continue fighting

6. 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

7. 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

8. BATTLE OF ANTIETAM
September 17, 1862 – 23,000 Americans lost their lives
BLOODIEST SINGLE DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY!

9. LINCOLN HAS THE VICTORY NEEDED FOR…
The Emancipation Proclamation

10. 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

11. DAY 1 VIDEO NOTES

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. DAY 2 VIDEO NOTES

17. 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

18. THEY HAVE THEM TRAPPED
COULD HAVE POSSIBLY ENDED THE WAR EARLIER
DOESN’T WANT TO RISK LOSING HIS REMAINING TROOPS

19. CONFEDERATE TROOPS A PHOTOGRAPHER CRIES OF WOUNDED SOLDIERS
PICTURES OF THE DEAD AT ANTIETAM

20. 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