what emotions does the artist/photographer want you to feel as you observe each image? purpose
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What EMOTIONS does the artist/photographer want you to feel as you observe each image?
PURPOSE
Do you think that images of war can ever be
“neutral” or do you think that they will always carry
some kind of biased viewpoint?
VALIDITY
How do you think the American public felt about each war after seeing these
images?
IMPACT
AntietamSeptember 17, 1862
The Battle of Antietam was
THE BLOODIEST ONE DAY
Battle
Total casualties: 22,720
Confederate Losses Union Losses
Killed-1,512 Killed--2,108
Wounded--7,816 Wounded--9,549
Captured/Missing--1,844 Captured/Missing--753
The Setup…• After the disaster at Bull Run,
President Lincoln put his hopes in General George B. McClellan.
• For the next year (61-62)the Union (North) kept losing battles.
• Robert E. Lee felt that it wasfinally time to take the fight to the North
The Story…• In September of 1862, the
Confederates moved into Maryland in order to take Washington D.C.
• A STROKE OF LUCK! A Union soldier found a copy of Robert E. Lee’s battle plans wrapped around three cigars.
• The two armies met at Antietam Creek near the town of Sharpsburg.
Antietam
So what happened at the battle?
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/antietam/maps/antietam-animated-map.html
September 17, 1862• Battle began in the morning and lasted
all day. Back and forth fighting.
• Each side tried to hold the ground near the cornfield, the church, and the old stone bridge.
• McClellan had 4 divisions of men that he refused to use.
• He could have won, but the battle was a draw
WINNER: NORTH
Antietam (or Sharpsburg)
Casualties•23,100 / one day
State• Maryland
Aggressor: • Union
Commanders:• Gen. George B. McClellan [US]
• Gen. Robert E. Lee [CS]
Central Historical Question:
What effects did the Battle of Antietam have
on America?
HISTORY MYSTERY
The living that throng Broadway Street care little for the dead at Antietam, but
we believe they would jostle less carelessly down the great road, saunter less
at ease, were a few dripping bodies, fresh from the field, laid down along the
pavement.
Mr. Brady has done something to bring home to us the terrible reality of war.
If he has not brought bodies and laid them in our dooryards and along
the streets, then he has done something very much like it.
-New York Times October 20, 1862
These photos came to be called “The Dead at Antietam”
TWEDYAOD?
IT IS GOOD FOR AMERICANS TO SEE IMAGES OF THEIR
DEAD AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS.
TWEDYAOD?
IT IS NECESSARY FOR AMERICANS TO SEE IMAGES OF THEIR
DEAD AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS.
Key items to remember from today’s lesson
• The Battle of Antietam was the single bloodiest day in American history.
• McClellan could have won the entire war at Antietam. He chose not to pursue…
• The Union “victory” at Antietam allowed President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
• Matthew Brady’s pictures of Antietam changed how Americans viewed the war.
• Great Britain and France remained neutral and did not enter the war on the side of the Confederacy.