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What EMOTIONS does the artist/photographer want you to feel as you observe each image?

PURPOSE. What EMOTIONS does the artist/photographer want you to feel as you observe each image?. VALIDITY. 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?. IMPACT.

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What EMOTIONS does the artist/photographer want you to feel as you observe each image?

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  1. PURPOSE What EMOTIONS does the artist/photographer want you to feel as you observe each image?

  2. VALIDITY 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?

  3. IMPACT How do you think the American public felt about each war after seeing these images?

  4. AntietamSeptember 17, 1862

  5. The Battle of Antietam was THE BLOODIEST ONE DAY Battle Total casualties: 22,720

  6. 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 losingbattles. • Robert E. Lee felt that it wasfinally time to take the fight to the North

  7. 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.

  8. Antietam So what happened at the battle? http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/antietam/maps/antietam-animated-map.html

  9. 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

  10. Casualties • 23,100 / one day • State • Maryland • Aggressor: • Union • Commanders: • Gen. George B. McClellan [US] • Gen. Robert E. Lee [CS] wINNER: north Antietam (or Sharpsburg)

  11. HISTORY MYSTERY Central Historical Question: What effects did the Battle of Antietam have on America?

  12. 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”

  13. TWEDYAOD? IT IS GOOD FOR AMERICANS TO SEE IMAGES OF THEIR DEAD AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS.

  14. TWEDYAOD? IT IS NECESSARY FOR AMERICANS TO SEE IMAGES OF THEIR DEAD AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS.

  15. 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.

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