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This 3-page essay, based on the U.S. Civil War, details the battle of Antiem and how war paved the way for Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Civil War. A couple of these assumptions were that the victory of the Union forces over the Confederacy at Antietam was simple and easy. The other was that the Union
victory at once paved the way for the Emancipation Proclamation. As with anything dealing with war and conflict, however, things were not quite so black and white in this particular
matter. For one thing, by the time of the battle, which was the fall of 1863, both the Confederate and Union forces
were battle-hardened, with mistakes characterizing both sides during the early part of the war not repeated. Second, and perhaps most important, both sides battled, not so much for victory, but
to "expunge the honor of previous defeats," according to McPherson (McPherson 540). In addition, soldiers on both sides were motivated by
the "potential shame of cowardice in the eyes of comrades" (McPherson 540). Because of such peer pressure, men on both sides took risks, once the shooting began, that they normally
would not have taken (McPherson 540). McPherson discusses the fact that this type of "psychological warfare" ended up turning the men into mindless, fury-induced killing machines, without the typical instinct
of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confederacy was soundly defeated during this battle, the Union didnt
exactly escape unscathed either. All of this carnage meant that Union leader McClellan wasnt too aggressive when it came to "pursuing"
Southern troops out of Maryland. The South retreated mainly because most of their forces had been killed or disabled. When Lee ordered a retreat back to Virginia from Maryland, "McClellan
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