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Civil War Lecture: Lincoln, Leadership and Race, Emancipation as PolicyBackground information on major turning points in the war:
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Military Campaign of 1862 was very important!
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Resulted in the Emancipation Proclamation
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Battle of Gettysburg major event / battle in the war
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Fourth of july 1863, Gettysburg is over, Lee & the South would never recover.
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Grant (Union) attacks Vicksburg Maryland, July 3
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: Confeds ask for surrender terms from Grant
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Turning pint : fall of Atlanta 1864
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Now the confederacy is cut into two parts
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Election of 1864: major turning point, Lincoln vs. McClellan…Lincoln “I’m going to be beaten, andunless some great changes take place, badly beaten.”…Changes did take place (militarily) andLincoln won the election
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Relection of Lincoln in 1864 was crucial.Key idea from the Lecture: How emancipation changed the war
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Greatest single turning point: the emancipation of the slaves
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Emancipation of 4.2 million slaves destroyed southern society (July 1
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Only freed slaves behind Confederate lines:
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Did not apply to southern land already occupied by the Union
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Did not apply to slave states that had not seceded
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Emancipation changed what the Civil War was being fought over
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180 000 slaves will end up in the Union ArmySouth Begins their invasion attempt
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Lee invaded the north through the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Point of the invasion of the North was to take the war out of Virginia, Great Britain was about torecognize the confeds…if confeds can with, than Great Britain might give the confederacy access tothe British Navy (Union then looses)
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Lee believed that in Maryland there was confederate sympathy and the men were enthusiastic aboutfighting.
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3-4 thousand union soldiers wounded confederates starving and not very well clothed Marylandfarms being robbed?
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Union surrounded D.C, there was little resistance. Lee split his army into three parts
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