Caroline Janney
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Apr
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So he is looking for ways around that.
The real turning point on the question of emancipation were those seven days battles outside of the Confederate capital of Richmond in late June.
And the United States Army comes within a hair of capturing the Confederate capital.
They can see the spires of Richmond.
They can see the bells in the churches.
And they fail to take the capital city.
And after this, Lincoln has a meeting with his cabinet where he says, I want to go after slavery because it is obvious that slavery is supporting the Confederate army.
It's supporting the Confederate government.
His advisors, his cabinet says to him, look, we've just had a major defeat.
What does it look like if you issue this now?
You need to hold off until we have a battle that is enough of a victory not to look like we're just throwing everything on the table that we can.
There had been many other bloody battles.
Battle of Shiloh, which had occurred only a few months earlier in April of 62, had been a two-day battle with 24,000 casualties in the Eastern Theater, so Virginia and Maryland.
There had been a series of battles throughout the spring and summer where the casualties had been astronomical.
In late June, the Seven Days Battles in and around Richmond had been 34,000 casualties.
Then in the end of August, there had been 22,000 casualties at Second Bull Run.
What makes Antietam even more powerful is that this will be the first battlefield that photographers are going to show up and start documenting the dead.
And by this point, most of the Union dead had been buried, and whoever possesses the field will bury their own dead first.
And so by the time the photographers get there, most of the Union dead have been buried, but the Confederate dead have not.
And these photographs will be shown in New York City.
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