1. Antietam and Emancipation
Civil War:
Antietam and Emancipation

2. Union has lost every major battle in the east
The War So Far
Union has lost every major battle in the east

3. Time Line VICTORIES IN THE EAST UNION VICTORIES IN THE EAST
1860
Ft. Sumter*
1st Manassas*
1861
VICTORIES IN THE EAST
UNION
Seven Days*
1862
2nd Manassas*
VICTORIES IN THE EAST
CONFEDERATE
1863
Time Line
Significant Battles*

4. Lincoln’s goal = Save the Union!
The War So Far
Abolitionists and Republicans were pressuring Lincoln to make freeing the slaves another goal!
Lincoln’s goal = Save the Union!

5. The War So Far
Lincoln needed a Union victory in the east before he could think about freeing slaves.
wanted to show that his government was strong and could support freeing slaves didn’t want it to appear that he was asking slaves to rebel against their masters.

6. Battle of Antietam

7. Battle of Antietam Lee took his army into Maryland and split them up.
Confederate General Lee took his army into Maryland
Wants a victory on northern soil so they could get European recognition
Get Lincoln to give up after seeing the destruction in Union territory
Lee took his army into Maryland and split them up.
Union troops found Lee’s plans at an abandoned Confederate camp.
McClellan was hesitant to act.
Missed the chance to attack the separated Confederate army.

8. Confederate casualties over 10,000
Battle of Antietam
Battle raged all day
Union casualties over 12,000
Confederate casualties over 10,000
September 17, 1862

9. Battle of Antietam
Confederates retreat back to Virginia next day- Union victory.
McClellan did not pursue Confederate army.
Lincoln fired McClellan

10. Bloodiest single day battle in American history
Battle of Antietam
Bloodiest single day battle in American history
Lincoln now had the victory he needed to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

11. Emancipation Proclamation
military action?
Problem:
Constitution did not prohibit slavery

12. Emancipation Proclamation
PROPERTY

13. Emancipation Proclamation
Issued Sept. 22, 1862

14. Emancipation Proclamation
An executive order that freed the slaves in areas rebelling against the Union
*Slaves in border states were not freed

15. Emancipation Proclamation
Went into effect
Jan. 1, 1863

16. Emancipation Proclamation
Effects…
Symbolic-
freed few slaves because there was no power to enforce in the South

17. Emancipation Proclamation?

18. Emancipation Proclamation
Confederates’ hopes of getting allies are dashed- Great Britain & France won’t help the south keep their slaves

19. African Americans Fight
African Americans could now join the military

20. African Americans Fight
Many new recruits enlisted
The War Department decided that African American soldiers would be placed in all African American units commanded by white officers.

21. African Americans were now directly involved in their own emancipation.