Warm-Up9/21/15 If General McLellan is not using the army, I would very much like to borrow it for a time. -Abraham Lincoln Lincoln is being sarcastic here;

Warm-Up9/21/15If General McLellan is not using the

army, I would very much like to borrow it for a time. - Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln is being sarcastic here; what do you think he means?

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Civil War

1862

The War So Far• The war had not been going well for the

Union armies around Washington, D.C.• The Union had lost every major battle in

which it had fought in 1861 and 1862.

Antietam (or Sharpsburg)

BATTLES

Sep

tem

ber

1862

BATTLES

WINNER: NEITHER

Antietam (or Sharpsburg)

Casualties•23,100 / one day

State• Maryland

Aggressor: • Union

Commanders:• Gen. George B. McClellan [US] • Gen. Robert E. Lee [CS]

After pursuing Confederate General Robert E. Lee into Maryland, Union Army Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan launched attacks against Lee's army, in defensive positions behind Antietam Creek. At dawn on September 17, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's corps mounted a powerful assault on Lee's left flank. Attacks and counterattacks swept across Miller's Cornfield and fighting swirled around the Dunker Church. Union assaults against the Sunken Road eventually pierced the Confederate center, but the Federal advantage was not followed up. In the afternoon, Union Maj. Gen.

Commander Ambrose Burnside's corps entered the action, capturing a stone bridge over Antietam Creek and advancing against the Confederate right. At a crucial moment, Confederate Maj. Gen. A. P. Hill's division arrived from Harpers Ferry and launched a surprise counterattack, driving back Burnside and ending the battle. Although outnumbered two-to-one, Lee committed his entire force, while McClellan sent in less than three-quarters of his army, enabling Lee to fight the Federals to a standstill. During the night, both armies consolidated their lines. In spite of crippling casualties, Lee continued to skirmish with McClellan throughout September 18, while removing his battered army south of the Potomac River.[5]

Burnside Bridge

September 17, 1862 was the bloodiest day of the Civil War taking place at Antietam. Federal losses totaled 12,410 and the Confederates lost 10,700 men. Although neither side won a decisive victory, General Robert E. Lee's failure to carry the war into the north was significant to the outcome of the war. The win at Antietam gave President Lincoln the opportunity to issue the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION, which on January 1, 1863, declared free all slaves in States still in rebellion against the United States.

General George McLellan

McClellan and Lee battled to a standstill along Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland. Lee

retreated back to Virginia. In early October, Lincoln visited McClellan at his headquarters at Antietam to

urge him personally to attack. 

McClellan ignored

Lincoln’s urging to

pursue him. For six weeks,

Lincoln and McClellan exchanged

angry messages, but McClellan

stubbornly refused to

march after Lee.In letters to his wife he was full of criticisms regarding his commander-in-chief. Here are some quotes from his letters:“The President is an idiot…I went to the White House shortly after tea where I found the original gorilla…the President is nothing more than a well meaning baboon…There never was a truer epithet applied to a certain individual than that of the ‘Gorilla.’ “

McClellan had a habit of overestimating the Confederate forces he faced and underestimating his ability to move expeditiously against them. 

In November 1862,a tortured relationship ends when President Abraham Lincoln removes General George B. McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac.

Named Burnside as the new general.

McClellan ran against Lincoln for 2nd presidential term in 1864.

DRAFT (also called Conscription)

CREATED

In 1862 the South instituted a draft

requiring three years of service for

those selected between the ages of 18

and 35

In 1863, the North also passed the

draft. Congress created The Enrollment

Act, requiring all men between 20 and

45 years register for military service.

Draft (n.) : a system in which people are ordered to join the armed services in time of war

Who may have written this?

The draftee could find a substitute to go for him.

Or he could simply pay $300 and get out of going to war.

Often called “The rich person’s war.” Why?

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NYC Draft Riots, (July 13-16, 1863)

NYC Draft Riots, (July 13-16, 1863)

Civil War on the Homefront

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgxgETdDmGo

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1st Bull Run Picacho Peak Shiloh Antietam Fredericksburg Gettysburg

Dates

Location

Near Tucson, Arizona       

Union General

Confederate General

Winner

Union

Total Casualties

SignificanceRealized it would be a

long, difficult war