1862

Antietam

• A private found three cigars wrapped in papers

• Revealed Lee’s battle plans

• Bloodiest day in American History• Technically, Union won, but really a draw• Lincoln replaces McClellan with General Burnside

McClellanBurnside

Burnside

Emancipation Proclamation

• Lincoln used the win at Antietam to announce the Emancipation Proclamation

1. All slaves in the rebel-controlled territory would be freed

2. Excluded slaves in under Union control3. If Confederate surrendered by January 1863,

no slaves would be freed

Fredericksburg

• Burnside attacked entrenched Confederates positions on the outskirts of Fredericksburg

• 12,000 Union soldiers fell• Lincoln replaces Burnside with “Fighting Joe”

Hooker

“Fighting Joe” Hooker

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