UNION VICTORY

⭐️what battles provided the major turning point in the war that would guarantee Union victory?⭐️
☆Gettysburg
★Antietam

ANTIETAM

• A soldier found a copy of Lee's special orders that a southern soldier had dropped
• McClellan had a plan to attack from the left & right flanks
• They moved too slow, so Lee was able to shift troops
• Union ended up losing

SO WHY IS IT SIGNIFICANT?

• It caused lee to retreat without achieving what he was there for, so the north could claim some form of victory
• 5 days later Lincoln issued a proclamation saying that if the confederate states didn't return to the union by January 1, 1863, all slaves would be free

GETTYSBURG

• Lee wanted to invade a Northern city
• Lincoln found o about the invasion so he sent he army to cut them off
• Lee ended up retreating with 57,000 dead, wounded, or missing Americans with 1/3 of those being his soldiers

SIGNIFICANCE

• Was the greatest battle of the civil war
• Lee never tries to invade the North again
• Confederates don't have enough strength to mount another offensive attack