Set 2: battle of Antietam/Emancipation Proclamation

Battle of Antietam fought in?

Maryland (a border state that was a slave state that never joined the South)

Lee V. McClellan

Lee tried to discourage the North and a lot of people were sympathetic to the _______?

Confederacy

Story of the Cigar Wrappers- Some union soldiers found cigar wrappers. There were battle plan on the back of them ___ had written. They did not get delivered to where they need to be. McClellan knew Lee’s hand writing.

Lee

Battle of Antietam was know as the?

North victory but costly (If we win free slaves)

bloodiest battle in American History (25,000 casualties between the N and S)

“I made a solemn vow before God, that if General Lee were driven back into Virginia, I would crown the result by the declaration of freedom to the slaves” Said by?

Abraham Lincoln

Emancipation Proclamation

the speech Lincoln gave to free the slaves after they won

Not an act of Congress and did not include _____ states

border

Did this really work?

No, because the South didn’t really think it was legitimate.

13th amendment?

free slavery