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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