2. Peninsular Campaign
• Attempt to take Richmond
• New US Commander (East)
–Gen. George McClellan
–Huge failure
• Lack of or incorrect information
• Pinkerton

3. Gen.
McClellan

4. McClellan
–Very Cautious!
–Men loved him
•Prepared them well
•Too cautious in
battle????

5. Confederates
• Gen. Johnston
–Wounded
• Gen. Lee takes over

6. Gen.
Johnsto
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7. Gen.
Robert
E. Lee

8. Battle
• McClellan almost reaches
Richmond
–Lee takes over Conf. army
• Forces Union back down
the Peninsula

10. Outcome
• Confederate Victory
• Casualties
–16,000 Union
–20,000 Conf.

11. Changes
• McClellan
–Fired
–Wouldn’t attack
• New Commander
–Gen. John Pope

12. Gen.
John
Pope

13. 2nd Bull
Run

14. 2nd Bull Run
• Same area as 1st Bull Run
• Pope Vs. Lee
–August 29, 1862
• Confederates attack
–Longstreet (30,000) hid along
Union flank

16. 2nd Bull Run
• First Day
–Draw
• Next Morning
–Jackson’s men are barely
holding
• Throwing Rocks at attackers

17. Second Bull Run

19. Gen.
Longstreet

20. 2nd Bull Run
• Longstreet attacks
–Crushes US left flank
–Jackson attacks right
–Bends Union lines into a
horseshoe
• Union Retreats

22. 2nd Bull Run
• Union Defeat
–Casualties
• US - 15,000
• CS - 9,000
• Pope is fired
–McClellan gets army back

23. Invasion
• Lee invades Maryland
–Hoped to bring Maryland into
CSA
• Armies will meet near
Antietam Creek - 9/17/62
–Sharpsburg

24. Sharpsburg

26. Antietam
• Union makes three
separate attacks
–Cornfield
–Sunken Road (Bloody Lane)
–Burnside’s Bridge

28. Video

29. Bloody Lane

32. Gen.
Burnside

34. Burnside’s Bridge

36. Antietam
• End of the day - draw
• McClellan had 25,000 reserves
– Doesn’t attack
• Lee waits for one day
– Withdraws into Virginia

37. Antietam
• Casualties
–Bloodiest single day of
the war
–USA - 12,350
–CSA - 13,700

38. CSA Wounded

39. CSA Dead

42. Lincoln
• Went to visit McClellan
–Urged him to attack
–He refuses
–Loses command

43. Lincoln at Antietam

44. War
Council

45. Lincoln
• Union was doing poorly
• Wanted a new “Cause”
– Free the slaves
• Emancipation Proclamation
– Needed a Victory
– Wouldn’t seem desperate
– Antietam was close enough

46. Emancipation
• Free all slaves?
–No
–Freed slaves in states in
rebellion
• Not in border states
• Why not?